From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 20:39:58 GMT
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:18, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 8:33 PM +0100 2/26/02, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >But ONE thing we should really check carefully:
> >http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
> >
>
> The "patented" TT features are compiled out by default -
> you'd have to manually enable them (via compile-time flag) if you
> wanted to play there...
>
> So, no issue!
Agreed with LDR here, who just "happens" to be a freetype maintainer and
font guru for those who don't know.
We won't be infringing on any patent issues because we aren't shipping
binary versions of freetype with abiword except maybe on win32 - but
even then we'll ship a separate DLL with Font Hinting disabled just to
cover our asses.
For those who build Abi from source OR have a license from Apple OR live
in a place where these patent's don't apply, it's not an issue. Drop in
the freetype dll of your choice to replace ours, but do so at your own
risk.
Dom
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