From: trobinson at gksystems dot com Operating system: all PHP version: 4.3.2RC4 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Update GD after GIF patent expires June 20
GD 2 can read GIF files, but cannot write them, due to the Unisys patent. The patent expires on June 20,2003 - that's three weeks!!! Note that ImageMagick.org have stated: "...wait until June 20, 2003, when the patent expires and LZW is enabled by default in ImageMagick distributions." I hope that GD will do likewise. If there are plans for updating the PHP GD functions in the next little while, it would be nice to base it on the new GIF version. ...Tom -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=23864&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=23864&r=gnused
