NYCPHP Meetup

[Jeff Knight]

Unisys's last patent on compressing gifs expires today, expect to see 
gif support in the GD library soon. According to
http://www.boutell.com/gd/faq.html
Thomas Boutell says he'll get on it soon, but not immediately. It 
should trickle down into the bundled package soon after that (if not 
before).

But wait... according to /. (& how could they be wrong?) IBM has a 
patent as well... (two patents on the same algorithm?)

  You could try to get to the bottom of all this, or you could just give 
up and use the vastly superior png format.

Jeff Knight
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