On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Jaakko Hyvätti wrote:
> Anyway, I think I'll just maintain the patch for my uses and we'll see in
> 2004.. Unless Kiribati Patent Office happens to find the long lost Unisys
> patent application, and then the world is again held hostage..
Yup, and the same is mos
Hi all,
Out of some.. 191 (UN members).. countries in the world, today Unisys
holds a patent on LZW in 7 of them. After tomorrow, only in 6: Canada,
United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan
(http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw/index.htm). How worried would
people be if the 6 countr
"Ilia A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On June 19, 2003 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> > Agreed. So how about uncompressed GIF support? :)
>
> What would be the point, the whole idea behind GIFs (imho) is to have small
> images at a more or less reasonable quality. Uncompressed gifs are virtually
> poi
On June 19, 2003 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> Agreed. So how about uncompressed GIF support? :)
What would be the point, the whole idea behind GIFs (imho) is to have small
images at a more or less reasonable quality. Uncompressed gifs are virtually
pointless.
Ilia
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On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Moriyoshi Koizumi wrote:
> "Ilia A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Jaakko,
> >
> > Thanks for the patch, but there are a few things you should be aware of. While
> > the LZW patent in US expires tomorrow, in Europe and possibly other parts of
> > the world the patent wi
"Ilia A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jaakko,
>
> Thanks for the patch, but there are a few things you should be aware of. While
> the LZW patent in US expires tomorrow, in Europe and possibly other parts of
> the world the patent will still be in force for another year. Which means non
> lic
Hello Ilia,
Thursday, June 19, 2003, 7:38:45 PM, you wrote:
IA> Jaakko,
IA> Thanks for the patch, but there are a few things you should be aware of. While
IA> the LZW patent in US expires tomorrow, in Europe and possibly other parts of
IA> the world the patent will still be in force for anothe
Jaakko,
Thanks for the patch, but there are a few things you should be aware of. While
the LZW patent in US expires tomorrow, in Europe and possibly other parts of
the world the patent will still be in force for another year. Which means non
licensed users of GIF format in EU (I am guess you ar
Hi!
Some of yo might remember me from php3 times.. I just implemented
animated gif output support with the bundled GD library. Patch works with
both php-4.3.2 and php-4.3.3RC1. I keep the patch updated at
http://www.iki.fi/hyvatti/sw/, but hopefully it will get included in PHP
at some time.
