Re: Animated GIF output for PHP/GD
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:50:09 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Animated GIF output for PHP/GD | ||
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:
> "Ilia A." <ilia@prohost.org> wrote:
>
> > Jaakko,
> >
> > Thanks for the patch, but there are a few things you should be aware of. While
> > the LZW patent in US expires tomorrow, in Europe and possibly other parts of
> > the world the patent will still be in force for another year. Which means non
> > licensed users of GIF format in EU (I am guess you are in EU ;)) would be
> > violating the LZW patent.
>
> Agreed. So how about uncompressed GIF support? :)
How bloat... "If you implement something, do it good, or don't do it at
all" (Old Dutch wisdom)
regards,
Derick
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