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GIF Support Returns to GD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the celebrate-good-times-come-on dept.

g_adams27 writes "Legions of geeks and developers owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Boutell and his "gd" library, which powers the drawing and graphic-generating tools used by dozens of open-source projects. And now, with the expiration of the last Unisys patent on the GIF format, support for GIFs has finally been reinserted in gd. The GIF/PNG/MNG wars may continue, but having more options is good!"

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  1. obligatory warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beware of Geeks bare in GIF's.

  2. GIF is evil by fiannaFailMan · · Score: 3, Funny
    Gif is only ever used for annoying animated banner ads! It's not capable of doing anything else! Gif is evil! Gif is used by bozos! I hate Gif! Yadda yadda yadda.....

    [There. That should earn me some karma if the recent Flash flame war is anything to go by.]

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