<quote> No resized gif does appear in MMBase with JAI. The strange thing is that I can't find this information in the MMBase docmentation. I found the reason on the site of Sun. There is a world wide patent of Unisys on LZW writing of gif's that expires in July this year. Therefore there is only a gif decoder in JAI, but not a gif encoder. So, at the moment you can read but not write gif's with JAI.
Using png instead of gif is at the moment a temporary solution, so why not convert gif internally to png with JAI? Otherwise we have to wait until the end of this year when the patent expires and there is a new JAI library. </quote> (from burnallgifs http://burnallgifs.org/) 20 June 2003: The LZW patent expires today in the United States. However, patents on LZW are still in force in other countries. In mail dated Monday, 23 June 2003, Unisys attorney Mark Starr asserts that LZW patents are still in force in Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan. b.t.w. on http://carlit.mine.nu/~mmbase/fom-serve/cache/21.html there is some info about why using png images in mmbase.
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