At 23:05 11/04/2002 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > On Friday, 12. April 2002 06:53, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > Well, I don't actually see a license problem for non-LZW compressed gifs. > > > But I am still not sure supporting GIF is a productive thing to do. The > > > format needs to die. No sense helping it stay alive. > > > > > +1 > > I think its not a good idea to support gif-format. We have a lot of > > alternative formats. > >We could compromise and support reading of GIF files. That way you can >still use GIF image files from places, but you would write them back out >as pngs.
Good idea. BTW are you sure that the patent is only on the LZW? Andi -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
