# Resizing GIF's

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resizing-gifs/266008>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 15, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resizing-gifs/266008 "2008-07-15T14:26:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resizing-gifs/266008/1 "2008-07-15T14:26:23Z")

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I’ve been using the image resize code from [http://4wordsystems.com/php\_image\_resize.php](http://4wordsystems.com/php_image_resize.php). The author says that uploading non-jpeg will not work because these other formats have restrictive licenses (the script crashes when you attempt to do that). How do I obtain such a license? And is law fo’ real, man?

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**Author:** ![Charleh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Charleh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Charleh)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resizing-gifs/266008/2 "2008-07-15T15:53:46Z")

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Yep it’s real

I’m not sure on the exact terms though - I’m sure it’s only for commercial software that you need a licence

Anyway the full patent is here

[http://progfree.org/Patents/Gif/gif\_lic.html](http://progfree.org/Patents/Gif/gif_lic.html)