Re: no GIF-write support in gdLIB, sure, but reading?
| From: | Stanislav Malyshev | Date: | Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:31:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: no GIF-write support in gdLIB, sure, but reading? | ||
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w>> I cannot use the same version to read GIF AND PNG, right? I
w>> thought the very special licensed code patent held from UNISYS is
w>> for writing GIFs only? If I want to read some Gif to convert it
w>> into PNG or JPG. I have to install two versions of php4 and GDLib,
w>> one with gdlib 1.3 configured and one with gd 1.8.x configured...
w>> that╢s bad.
Yes. If you write a letter to Unisys and explain how bad it is, they
probably stop doing such thing. Or probably they won't care. That's what
we all get for believing you can use proprietary format and not get fried.
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