Re: Re: Animating with GD?
| From: | Blue Prawn | Date: | Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:43:32 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Animating with GD? | ||
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> >Not anymore due to the Unisys LZW patent issues.. GD has no support for
> >GIF file anymore.
> >Wait until next june.. Then you can create animated GIF files with GD
> >(Unisys' patent expires).
>
> That patent already expired for the US (June 30, 2003). Canadian
> patent expires July 7, 2004, the counterpart patents in the United
> Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy expire June 18, 2004, and the
> Japanese counterpart patents expire June 20, 2004.
There are NO patent for software in France (so we could use gif support)
But it will perhaps change next on 1 september 2003.