Re: Let's fork GD!
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 12 Apr 2002 06:05:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let's fork GD! | ||
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> On Friday, 12. April 2002 06:53, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> +1
> I think its not a good idea to support gif-format. We have a lot of
> alternative formats.
We could compromise and support reading of GIF files. That way you can
still use GIF image files from places, but you would write them back out
as pngs.
-Rasmus