RE: [PHP-DEV] Let's fork GD!

Well, supporting writing regular GIF files is not something we can legally do. It is not us making the decision. There will definitely be no writing of LZW-GIF files in PHP. I am not willing to blatantly violate a patent that is being actively enforced. -Rasmus On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Robinson, Mike wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf writes: > > > 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. > > If there will be no gif support in the bundled gd, then there > has to be a mechanism for using external gd libs, much like > the mysql mechanism. The option --with-gd uses the bundled libs, > --with-gd=/path/to/gd uses external libs. > > Removing support for gif images completely would be brutal, > and isn't a decision that PHP should be making on behalf of > its users. IMHO that is. > > Frankly, I think gif support should be included and disabled > by default. Let the users decide. For the most part, they are > a fairly smart bunch. Otherwise they'd be using asp or cf or > some damn thing. :) > > Best Regards > Mike Robinson >