Re: Let's fork GD!
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 12 Apr 2002 04:53:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let's fork GD! | ||
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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.
-Rasmus
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Markus Fischer wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:36:06AM +0200, Stig S. Bakken wrote :
> > Yes! The end to all GD-related configure problems! Can we put the GIF
> > support back too, please? :-)
>
> Wanted to ask the same :) But how's about this licensing
> problem, don't we run into trouble if we put GIF support in?
> Or would it be legal to put the code in, disable it by
> default and explicitely state 'only use it when you've got a
> license' (and, I'm talking about writing LZW Gifs).
>
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