Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-21 Thread Stefan Esser
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:25:57AM -, James Cox wrote: > guys, how about we just like leave this for a couple of months till 2003 > when the patent runs out? > > -- james I was just joking... Anyway I dislike all this patent shit. Stefan Esser -- PHP Development Mailing List

RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-21 Thread James Cox
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support > > > *lol* ! > > You could do something like --enable-have-a-lzw-license > > But noone can control this so unisys would consider anybody > using php with gif a criminal. And i do not want to know what > they think ab

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-21 Thread Marcus Börger
*lol* ! You could do something like --enable-have-a-lzw-license But noone can control this so unisys would consider anybody using php with gif a criminal. And i do not want to know what they think about the development of php. MAybe they find a solution to stop us because *we*

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Stefan Esser
Question... Would it be illegal (patent violation) to add a compile switch to php... --enable-gif-support-and-violate-the-unisys-patent which activates the GIF support? We cleary say, that using it is a violation... As far as i know, only using the LZW Algo violates the patent, but not having it

RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Joseph Tate
> -Original Message- > From: Pierre-Alain Joye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:01:06 +0100 > "Carsten Gehling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because > > of Unisys' license on the LZW compression format.

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Pierre-Alain Joye
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:01:06 +0100 "Carsten Gehling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because > of Unisys' license on the LZW compression format. > > Then how can ImageMagick support it? afaik, it supports uncompressed GIF, which is usele

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Carsten Gehling wrote: > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because of > Unisys' license on the LZW compression format. > > Then how can ImageMagick support it? > > It would sure be nice with an API to ImageMagick (PHPMagick?) as found in > Perl. H

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Markus Fischer
A project exists already: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=76 On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:01:06PM +0100, Carsten Gehling wrote : > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because of > Unisys' license on the LZW compression format. > > Then how can ImageMagi