Re: Let's fork GD!

Yes! The end to all GD-related configure problems! Can we put the GIF support back too, please? :-) - Stig On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 00:26, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > Guys, I have had enough of the GD configuration nightmare and the fact > that it has taken 6+ months for the Boutell folks to incorporate various > patches that have been sent their way. > > I propose that we roll the GD library into PHP, apply the various > outstanding patches and default to building from the bundled library much > like we do with MySQL. I think GD is a popular enough extension for PHP > that it would be extremely cool to have decent truecolor GD2 support > available for everyone. And we could go in and fix a couple of really > annoying aspects as well as give the various graphics nuts a bit of a > playground to come up with cool stuff. > > The GD license explicitly permits modifying and redistributing the library > as long as we give proper attribution in user-accessible documentation, > which is easy enough. > > The details of the license are here: > > http://www.boutell.com/gd/manual2.0.1.html#notice > > The important bit: > > Permission has been granted to copy, distribute and modify gd in any > context without fee, including a commercial application, provided that > this notice is present in user-accessible supporting documentation. > > This does not affect your ownership of the derived work itself, and the > intent is to assure proper credit for the authors of gd, not to > interfere with your productive use of gd. If you have questions, ask. > "Derived works" includes all programs that utilize the library. Credit > must be given in user-accessible documentation. > > Nice and sane. > > -Rasmus > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php