[PHP-DEV] [Fwd: php/gd_lib/ _reading_ support for GIFs] From: waldschrott (waldschrott <email protected>)
Date: 07/27/00

a pity.... but as long as there´s that patch available, couldn´t we
include that link to the patch-site anywhere? 

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, [ISO-8859-1] André Langhorst wrote:

> Hi there, > I´m a from the php.net team and we´re wondering if the patent UNISYS > holds applys to reading GIF files too; I thought it would apply to > writing GIF files only. (Mozilla does display GIFs too and I don´t think > they´ll pay for it, but I´m quite unsure). > *If* the patent applies to _writing_ GIFs only, please enable reading > GIF images. > It´s very bad not beeing able to convert GIFs to PNGs with gd_lib. > > Good work and thanks for that great product.

Hello,

Most independent watchers think the patent doesn't apply to decoding GIFs.

Unisys says it does.

We're a small company and we don't play legal games. Sorry. There are other tools to convert GIF to PNG. 

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