Re: Alternative image library
| From: | Jim Winstead | Date: | Tue, 20 Jul 1999 22:17:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Alternative image library | ||
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Andrey Zmievski wrote:
> Jim Winstead wrote:
> > Not if we're not distributing it or distributing anything linked to it.
> >
> > Same issue with PHP3 and GD, as far as I'm concerned. We should only
> > have patent issues if we distribute binaries that have LZW code.
>
> All right. I took a look at Ilib and it seems to have less capabilities than
> GD, such as no arc drawing, no polygon drawing, no matching closest color,
> etc. It also doesn't have TTF support currently. What would be the
> implications of borrowing code from gdttf.c?
Well, that code came from a source that was mentioned on this list
recently, so you'd have to look at the copyright on that.
But one thing to keep in mind is that Ilib is GPL'd, so we can't
really distribute an Ilib extension with PHP itself.
Jim