Gavrie Philipson wrote:
>
> Mike Almogy wrote:
> > What version of GD do i need to install in order to have support for
> > PNG,JPEG and GIF ?
>
> There is no version of GD that supports GIF and PNG. Old versions used
> to support GIF, but due to patents on the GIF compression, new versions
Officially, correct. But nobody, including the law(*), can stop you
from taking the GIF modules from GD-1.5, and adding them to the
latest version of GD (you will need to apply a minor patch to the
Makefile).
(*) The patent covers only 7 countries in the world, so in most of
the countries, including Israel, you don't have any problem to use
the patent freely. Even in these 7 countries, you are permitted to
use the patent, as long as you meet the terms of Unisys. And even if
you don't meet them, you are permitted to use the GIF modules of GD,
as-is (there is no patent for GIF's generation, only for compressing
them using LZW, and LZW is turned off by default in GD). So you have
a problem only if you take this code, modify the default compilation
flags, go to U.S./Japan/UK/etc., and use it to generate compressed
GIF's, and yet insist on not meeting the terms of Unisys. I Am Not A
Lawyer (otherwise, I could add more dozens reasons why you shouldn't
care).
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