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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- Re: LibGd and LZW, Arnold V. Lesikar, 8/29/1999; 9:58:03 AM
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