Re: [ft-devel] Apple Patents on font hinting expired?

2009-11-13 Thread Antoine Leca
Russell Hay wrote: Apologies if this is a much revisited topic, but I noticed that in the archives of this mailing list, there are some end dates stated for the relevant Apple patents; http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2006-11/msg6.html they are, respectively, 1992-10-

Re: [ft-devel] Apple Patents on font hinting expired?

2009-11-12 Thread Ralph Giles
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Russell Hay wrote: > 5,155,805: October 13, 2009 > 5,159,668: October 27, 2009 The relevant US patents have expired, but I believe there are equivalent patents in Canada, Japan and Germany. The truetype hinting instructions should be free worldwide in May, 2010.

Re: [ft-devel] Apple Patents on font hinting expired?

2009-11-12 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 11/12/2009 06:59 AM, Russell Hay wrote: ...has this 'removed the restrictions on distributing the the bytecode interpreter? That's my understanding, yes. behdad ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/m

[ft-devel] Apple Patents on font hinting expired?

2009-11-12 Thread Russell Hay
Apologies if this is a much revisited topic, but I noticed that in the archives of this mailing list, there are some end dates stated for the relevant Apple patents; http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fr ... 6.html