Re: cvs: php4 /ext/gd gd.c

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote: > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 05:53:18 -0700 (PDT) > Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@php.net> wrote: > > > I don't think we can do that. Like someone said, they have to use GIF > > in order to generate images for a mobile device. That means they > > either need to use GD-1.3 or a hacked up later version. > > Is only the compression system licenced ? Anyway, that is not too > difficult to add GIF support to the bundled (maybe not in the upcoming > release), regardless to the licence, which I did not take about it as > far as I do not use gif anymore. I see very little point in adding non-compressed GIF write support. The people who need it are going to need compressed GIF. You are not going to want to use uncompressed GIF images on a small mobile device, for example. I'll put compressed GIF write in the next version as the LZW patent should be expired by then. -Rasmus