gd alternative (Score 1)

I wrote a gd alternative a few years ago and continue to maintain it. Check it out at:

http://www.radix.net/~cknudsen/Ilib/

It allows you to use giflib (or ungiflib) so that Ilib doesn't have the licensing issues. As long as you can get gliflib, you're good to go.

See the FAQ and the API.

It's open source and should work on all *nix as well as win32.