Looks like GIF support is back in GD.
http://www.boutell.com/gd/faq.html
Anytime line on when this could be reintergrated?
Thank You
Peter Maas
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 20:03, Peter Maas wrote:
Looks like GIF support is back in GD.
Wow -- how were they able to do this? Was there some change in the status of the patent? (Perhaps this is broad news, and I just haven't caught it yet?)
-Max
The patent has expired. Max K-A wrote:
On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 20:03, Peter Maas wrote:
Looks like GIF support is back in GD.
Wow -- how were they able to do this? Was there some change in the status of the patent? (Perhaps this is broad news, and I just haven't caught it yet?)
-Max
On Jul 23, 2004, dragoran dragoran@feuerpokemon.de wrote:
The patent has expired.
The Unisys patent did. AFAIK IBM patents covering the GIF format are still valid for a few years.
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 23, 2004, dragoran dragoran@feuerpokemon.de wrote:
The patent has expired.
The Unisys patent did. AFAIK IBM patents covering the GIF format are still valid for a few years.
I was wondering about this as well. By adding GIF back into GD, are the GD folks just assuming that IBM won't go after their GIF patent(s) because of their pro-OSS actions of late? Or did IBM say something publicly that hasn't made its way around the net yet?
-- jeremy