Re: Let's fork GD!
| From: | Andi Gutmans | Date: | Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:06:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Let's fork GD! | ||
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At 23:05 11/04/2002 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
On Friday, 12. April 2002 06:53, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:Good idea. BTW are you sure that the patent is only on the LZW? AndiWell, 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.