At 07:54 -0800 2001.12.03, Adam Russell wrote: >GD is GPLd and if anyone wants an older version(1.3) of the source with gif >support I'll set it up on an ftp or web mirror. >I don't know if anyone ever noticed but gd didn't even use LZW gif >compression. Yes, it used RLE. But Boutell didn't want to risk distributing it anyway, and Stein followed suit, IIRC. It was about fear of patent lawsuits, because just because you're right, that doesn't mean you want to go to court to prove it.
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