Re: Announcement, second draft

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Thursday 15 April 2004 10:37 am, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> >
> > The relevant patents will expire relatively soon, but it's quite
> > unclear right now whether the capability to write GIF files will be
> > restored to the GD library.
> 
> For what it's worth, Boutell's web site says:
>     "GIF support will not reappear in gd until the patent expires 
>      world-wide on July 7th, 2004."
> 
> That is soon enough that we might consider not spending a
> huge amount of text on an issue that is only relevant for a
> few more months.  It might be better to say something like:
> 
>   "GIF images were not supported by versions of the GD library
>   later than 1.4 but prior to the worldwide expiration of the Unisys
>   LZW patent."

I saw that note of Boutell's, too, but from the context I gathered the
expression that he's not exactly sitting there counting the days until he
can reactivate GIF support.  Saying "not before" is not the same as "yes
right afterwards".

-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.