[ILUG] ot: gd

Lars Hecking lhecking at nmrc.ucc.ie
Tue May 16 15:54:22 IST 2000


> >  We do not supply gd 1.2 and 1.5, which are subject to the UNISYS licence.
> > 
> 
> *curious*
> 
> Aren't all the GD libraries that have GIF support subject to the licence?

 In my understanding, no. The Unisys patent covers LZW compression,
 while gd 1.3 and 1.4 use run length encoding (or whatever it's called).





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