Re: Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD
| From: | Antony Dovgal | Date: | Thu, 20 May 2004 11:19:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD | ||
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On Thu, 20 May 2004 13:15:39 +0200 (CEST)
Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andrew Sitnikov wrote:
>
> > DR> Nope, due to patent issues we can not add it.
> > Action of the patent on GIF was not expired ?
> >
> > http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html
> > The United States LZW patent expired on June 20th, 2003..
> > According to Unisys, the counterpart 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.
>
> It's not July 7th yet, is it?
so you are going to accept this or similar patch after 7th of July, yeah?
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Antony Dovgal aka tony2001
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