From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 11:04:38 EDT
At 2:55 PM +0100 4/26/02, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> > To what extent can we turn this on and then have a HUGE DISCLAIMER that
>> Americans and others with crazy patent laws may not use it. According
>> to FreeType.org some distributions turn it on by default.
>It needs to be pointed out, that this does not need to be turned on at all,
>FT has its own algorithms for dealing with the patented issues, and from
>what I understand, they work quite nicely (perhaps Leonard would be a
>better person to comment on this).
Correct. The issue is related ENTIRELY to hinting and a
specific instruction (see previous message) and FT includes it's own
"autohinter" as a replacement by default.
> But I think if it comes to it, we should not
>provide official releases with the patented stuff enabled.
>
I agree!
Leonard
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