Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:9966 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39754 invoked by uid 1010); 20 May 2004 11:15:42 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 39719 invoked from network); 20 May 2004 11:15:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jdi.jdimedia.nl) (212.204.192.51) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 20 May 2004 11:15:42 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4KBFdef030802; Thu, 20 May 2004 13:15:40 +0200 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:15:39 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Andrew Sitnikov cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <1483383408.20040520140855@infonet.ee> Message-ID: References: <122484773.20040520133414@infonet.ee> <1483383408.20040520140855@infonet.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) 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? regards, Derick