Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: LibGd: LZW and future plans

Author:Eric Kidd
Posted:8/29/1999; 9:18:17 AM
Topic:GIFs get expensive
Msg #:10198 (In response to 10196)
Prev/Next:10197 / 10199

(I'm speaking for myself, not for UserLand.)

That GD version uses RLE encoding and should not be subject to the Unisys license.

One warning: figure out why RLE compression was removed from GD before distributing it. There's a whole bunch of patents related to run-length encoding.

Cheers,
Eric

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