in reply to OT: GIF Support in GD?

GIF support was removed from GD because of the patent and associated licence claims, as a form of protest, and not because it wasn't usable. The patent now has expired, and GIF support has been re-added. There's no way the patent will un-expire, so it'll stay, this time.

I have no idea on what you have to do to produce animated GIFs with GD, or if it's even possible.

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Re^2: OT: GIF Support in GD?
by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Jan 08, 2005 at 21:10 UTC

    Animated GIF support was added to gd 2.0.29. See its web page for the details. It sounds like the original poster knows what he needs to do but isn't getting the right results. He provided no code however (but isn't even using Perl, so no matter).

    As for the patent, Boutell says: "The well-known patents on LZW compression held by Unisys have expired in all countries. British Telecom and IBM may hold related patents but have never chosen to require royalties for GIF applications, to the best of my knowledge. I am not a lawyer and cannot give legal advice regarding this issue."

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    brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>
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