On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:20:58PM +0100, Alex de Landgraaf wrote:
Hey debian-legal,
Interested in improving font-AAing in Debian, I've taken a look at some of the
patches in Debian for the freetype package. Now patents have hinderd true AA
using freetype in Debian in the past ( 2 years
Brian M. Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Debian is not patent-free, and will not be patent-free. CAST5 and
CAST6 are patented but are available for use royalty free. DSA is
patented by, IIRC, David Kravitz of the NSA. Putting a cursor on the
screen using XOR is patented.
The XOR cursor
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 20:41, Måns Rullgård wrote:
Brian M. Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If Apple decides to actively enforce its patent, you should upgrade
the severity to serious if the license available for general use is
not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:08:03AM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
patch (030-bytecode-interpreter.diff), I suspect this patch still remains
from
the 1.0 freetype series, when this and other patches were used to supply an
unpatented bytecode interpreter. According to the freetype site,
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 23:12, Anthony Fok wrote:
I just did some experiments, and it seems that the prettier version
(http://descent.netsplit.com/~scott/fonts-upstream.png) was rendered with
FreeType's autohinting on. In that case, I suggest modifying
/etc/fonts/local.conf and uncomment the
Le sam 24/01/2004 à 00:12, Anthony Fok a écrit :
I just did some experiments, and it seems that the prettier version
(http://descent.netsplit.com/~scott/fonts-upstream.png) was rendered with
FreeType's autohinting on.
Yes, enabling the autohinter disables the bytecode interpreter as the
two
Hey debian-legal,
Interested in improving font-AAing in Debian, I've taken a look at some of the
patches in Debian for the freetype package. Now patents have hinderd true AA
using freetype in Debian in the past ( 2 years ago), but since the freetype
2.0 series this shouldn't be a problem anymore
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