Re: GIF create support for bundled GD
| From: | Scott MacVicar | Date: | Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:56:34 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: GIF create support for bundled GD | ||
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Last one expired today in Canada. So will we be seeing GIF support in 4.3.8 and 5.0.0? I'm hoping it's not too late for 5.0.0 at least.
Scott
Andi Gutmans wrote:
If we were a couple of years away from the patent expiry in the rest of the world, then I'd suggest a --i-am-in-the-us switch. But as we're talking about 2-3 months I think we should wait until the whole world has the patent expired. Andi At 07:06 PM 5/20/2004 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:On Thu, 20 May 2004, Scott MacVicar wrote:Wez Furlong wrote:Well technically I can use it on my US server since the patent has expired there so surely a patch stating that you should only use it if your in the US could be possible?You want PHP to get taken to court? :)could the patch possibly appear in the documentation until the last one expires?We can't do that as everything for PHP is distributed over multiple servers worldwide. regards, Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php