Re: Let's fork GD!
| From: | Edin Kadribasic | Date: | Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:49:43 +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.
In the ideal world that would be true, but 90% of the web graphics files I
get from the designers and advertising agencies are still in the gif format.
There are still parts of the world where patent issues don't have an affect
anyway. As long as there is possibility to patch the php version of gd I'm
happy (http://www.rhyme.com.au/gd/).
Anyway I think forking gd is an excellent idea.
Edin