Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:9969 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 27049 invoked by uid 1010); 20 May 2004 16:26:20 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 27025 invoked by uid 1007); 20 May 2004 16:26:20 -0000 Message-ID: <20040520162620.27024.qmail@pb1.pair.com> To: internals@lists.php.net Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:26:21 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040501) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <122484773.20040520133414@infonet.ee> <20040520162454.23117.qmail@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20040520162454.23117.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 80.5.118.3 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD From: scottmacvicar@ntlworld.com (Scott MacVicar) Scott Macvicar wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andrew Sitnikov wrote: >> >> >>> I've got a patch (originally ported from old version GD) which adds >>> GIF write support to bundled libGD. Is there any chance to accept it >>> to core ? I've been testing it for quite long time with 4_3 and HEAD >>> and it works ok for me. >> >> >> >> Nope, due to patent issues we can not add it. >> >> regards, >> Derick > > The patent expires on June 18th of this year so just under a month and > it can be added again. > > http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw/ > > Regards, > Scott Err.. Just saw the rest of the thread so I hope its going to be added again as of the last patent expiry, or could the patch possibly appear in the documentation until the last one expires? Regards, Scott