Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-07-08 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Scott MacVicar wrote: > Last one expired today in Canada. So will we be seeing GIF support in > 4.3.8 and 5.0.0? I'm hoping it's not too late for 5.0.0 at least. It can't be in 5.0.0 as we're waaay to close to release. Derick -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Maili

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-07-07 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Scott MacVicar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD > IBM's patent is invalid as the patent was issued to Unisys before han

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-07-07 Thread Scott MacVicar
IBM's patent is invalid as the patent was issued to Unisys before hand. Scott Paul G wrote: - Original Message - From: "Scott MacVicar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create suppor

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-07-07 Thread Zeev Suraski
At 01:56 08/07/2004, Scott MacVicar wrote: Last one expired today in Canada. So will we be seeing GIF support in 4.3.8 and 5.0.0? I'm hoping it's not too late for 5.0.0 at least. It probably is - it will come out in 5.0.1. Zeev -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-07-07 Thread Paul G
- Original Message - From: "Scott MacVicar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD > Last one expired today in Canada. So will we be seeing GIF support in >

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-07-07 Thread Scott MacVicar
Last one expired today in Canada. So will we be seeing GIF support in 4.3.8 and 5.0.0? I'm hoping it's not too late for 5.0.0 at least. Scott Andi Gutmans wrote: If we were a couple of years away from the patent expiry in the rest of the world, then I'd suggest a --i-am-in-the-us switch. But as

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Sara Golemon
> My intention was always to add [GIF write support] after June 18th. > Do you see sneaking this into 5.0.1 since it's a "high profile" feature? Or keeping it to the later 5.1.0 release? -Sara -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsu

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Andi Gutmans
If we were a couple of years away from the patent expiry in the rest of the world, then I'd suggest a --i-am-in-the-us switch. But as we're talking about 2-3 months I think we should wait until the whole world has the patent expired. Andi At 07:06 PM 5/20/2004 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: On Th

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Scott MacVicar wrote: > Wez Furlong wrote: > >>could the patch possibly appear in the > >>documentation until the last one expires? > > > > > > You want PHP to get taken to court? :) > Well technically I can use it on my US server since the patent has > expired there so surely

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread James Aylett
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 09:36:02AM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > My intention was always to add this after June 18th. The Unisys page quoted earlier suggests July 7th is the last patent expiry (in Canada). James -- james aylett, chief technical ar

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Scott MacVicar
Wez Furlong wrote: could the patch possibly appear in the documentation until the last one expires? You want PHP to get taken to court? :) Well technically I can use it on my US server since the patent has expired there so surely a patch stating that you should only use it if your in the US cou

RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
My intention was always to add this after June 18th. On Thu, 20 May 2004, Wez Furlong wrote: > > > could the patch possibly appear in the > > documentation until the last one expires? > > You want PHP to get taken to court? :) > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To uns

RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Wez Furlong
> could the patch possibly appear in the > documentation until the last one expires? You want PHP to get taken to court? :) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread 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

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Scott MacVicar
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. N

Re: Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Antony Dovgal
On Thu, 20 May 2004 13:15:39 +0200 (CEST) Derick Rethans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andrew Sitnikov wrote: > > > DR> Nope, due to patent issues we can not add it. > > Action of the patent on GIF was not expired ? > > > > http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html > > The Un

Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 20 May 2004, Andrew Sitnikov wrote: > DR> Nope, due to patent issues we can not add it. > Action of the patent on GIF was not expired ? > > http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html > The United States LZW patent expired on June 20th, 2003.. > According to Unisys, the counterpart Canadian

Re[2]: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Andrew Sitnikov
Hello Derick, DR> Nope, due to patent issues we can not add it. Action of the patent on GIF was not expired ? http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/Gif/Gif.html The United States LZW patent expired on June 20th, 2003.. According to Unisys, the counterpart Canadian patent expires July 7, 2004, the counte

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Derick Rethans
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 pa

[PHP-DEV] GIF create support for bundled GD

2004-05-20 Thread Andrew Sitnikov
Hello , 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. -- Best regards, Andrew mailto: