Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:9964 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 96425 invoked by uid 1010); 20 May 2004 11:05:06 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 96371 invoked from network); 20 May 2004 11:05:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cold.infonet.ee) (212.7.0.1) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 20 May 2004 11:05:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 15457 invoked by uid 54); 20 May 2004 14:05:05 +0300 Received: from sitnikov@infonet.ee by cold by uid 51 with qmail-scanner-1.21 (ClamAV 0.71 Clear:RC:1(212.7.9.206):. Processed in 0.044909 secs); 20 May 2004 11:05:05 -0000 Received: from trusted?host (HELO localhost) (212.7.9.206) by 0 with SMTP; 20 May 2004 14:05:04 +0300 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by [127.0.0.1] with ESMTP (SpamPal v1.53) sender ; 20 May 2004 14:08:56 +0300 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:08:55 +0300 Reply-To: Andrew Sitnikov Organization: Infonet Ltd. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1483383408.20040520140855@infonet.ee> To: Derick Rethans CC: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: References: <122484773.20040520133414@infonet.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD From: sitnikov@infonet.ee (Andrew Sitnikov) Hello Derick, 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. -- Best regards, Andrew mailto:sitnikov@infonet.ee