Originally Posted by sexdwarf

arnette; you're a little out of date... unisys' patent on gif's expired on june 20th, 2003 in the us and worldwide it expired july 7th, 2004... the GD library restored gif support july 21st 2004 and imagemagick always supported uncompressed gif's (however you could manually enabled lzw compression illegally in the past) it now supports compressed versions as well