We have permission to adapt the code and integrate it into FreeType under
the FreeType license. I've followed up with Graham offline with a bit more
detail.

Hope that clears things up, and let me know if there are any remaining
concerns.

Thanks,

Raph

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Raph Levien <raph.lev...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm looking into the licensing question and will get back to you soon.
>
> Raph
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> > I have successfully converted part of Raph Levien's code - that is,
>> > the floating-point rasterizer, not the TTF parser - into C, and it
>> > seems to work well, although I have run only a few small tests so
>> > far and have not yet benchmarked the speed.
>>
>> A big thank you, Graham!  Very much appreciated.  I don't know yet,
>> however, when I will find some time to work on it.
>>
>> In case you want to do further integration into FreeType, please post
>> your results here :-)
>>
>> > One point that I may have to address is that there are declarations
>> > after statements, which seems to be OK in C nowadays, but wasn't
>> > formerly, I know; but that can be fixed trivially.
>>
>> OK.
>>
>> > The code is attached. Naturally I have credited Raph and used the
>> > same license. There are documentation comments in the source.
>>
>> Regarding the license: Raph, would it be possible to add
>> dual-licensing with GPL2 to the C code, or to change the C code to the
>> two licenses that come with FreeType?  Reason is that Apache 2.0 is
>> not compatible with GPL2.
>>
>>
>>     Werner
>>
>
>
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