Re: [MacPerl-Porters] GD

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 5.39 -0400 1999.07.16, Arved Sandstrom wrote:
>On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>> Well, libgd has been taken off the net.  Does GD need to be removed from
>> the MacPerl distribution?
>>
>>     http://www.boutell.com/gd/
>>
>If it's a permanent removal, maybe we can go with the last available
>version. Certainly there can't be any legal issues with that.
>
>It's a useful module, and it would be a shame to drop it. I think.

I've looked more into it, and it appears to me that the issue is LZW
compression, which gd1.5 uses and gd1.3 does not.  GD.pm uses gd1.2, and I
don't know what kind of compression it uses.  Boutell was concerned about
possible legal problems even with the RLE encoding in gd1.3 (saying that
there might be a problem using something that LZW decompressors can
decompress), but I don't see that as a reasonable legal issue.

So the question, to me, is whether or not gd1.2 uses RLE or LZW, and what
the author of GD.pm is going to do.

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