Re: VS: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-25 Thread Christian Stocker
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 10:33, Carsten Gehling wrote: > > Fra: Markus Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sendt: 20. november 2002 14:11 > > Emne: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support > > > > A project exists already: > > http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?p

VS: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-25 Thread Carsten Gehling
> Fra: Markus Fischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sendt: 20. november 2002 14:11 > Emne: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support > > A project exists already: > http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=76 Is there a Win32 binary available? - Carsten -- PHP Development

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-21 Thread Stefan Esser
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:25:57AM -, James Cox wrote: > guys, how about we just like leave this for a couple of months till 2003 > when the patent runs out? > > -- james I was just joking... Anyway I dislike all this patent shit. Stefan Esser -- PHP Development Mailing List

RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-21 Thread James Cox
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support > > > *lol* ! > > You could do something like --enable-have-a-lzw-license > > But noone can control this so unisys would consider anybody > using php with gif a criminal. And i do not want to know what > they think ab

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-21 Thread Marcus Börger
*lol* ! You could do something like --enable-have-a-lzw-license But noone can control this so unisys would consider anybody using php with gif a criminal. And i do not want to know what they think about the development of php. MAybe they find a solution to stop us because *we*

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Stefan Esser
Question... Would it be illegal (patent violation) to add a compile switch to php... --enable-gif-support-and-violate-the-unisys-patent which activates the GIF support? We cleary say, that using it is a violation... As far as i know, only using the LZW Algo violates the patent, but not having it

RE: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Joseph Tate
> -Original Message- > From: Pierre-Alain Joye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:01:06 +0100 > "Carsten Gehling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because > > of Unisys' license on the LZW compression format.

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Pierre-Alain Joye
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:01:06 +0100 "Carsten Gehling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because > of Unisys' license on the LZW compression format. > > Then how can ImageMagick support it? afaik, it supports uncompressed GIF, which is usele

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Derick Rethans
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Carsten Gehling wrote: > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because of > Unisys' license on the LZW compression format. > > Then how can ImageMagick support it? > > It would sure be nice with an API to ImageMagick (PHPMagick?) as found in > Perl. H

Re: [PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Markus Fischer
A project exists already: http://pear.php.net/package-info.php?pacid=76 On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:01:06PM +0100, Carsten Gehling wrote : > A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because of > Unisys' license on the LZW compression format. > > Then how can ImageMagi

[PHP-DEV] GIF support

2002-11-20 Thread Carsten Gehling
A question popped into my mind. I know GD doesn't support GIF because of Unisys' license on the LZW compression format. Then how can ImageMagick support it? It would sure be nice with an API to ImageMagick (PHPMagick?) as found in Perl. Has anyone started on this before, then I would like to know