Re: [Trisquel-users] libmp3lame0

[flop333]

Ok. Just one further question about patents. I have read about  
Apple/Microsoft patents which prevent Freetype from using the "bytecode  
interpreter" in order to render truetype fonts. As it is stated on freetype  
web, it is still possible to use this technology on countries where these  
patents do not apply. I wonder whether Trisquel (and/or Ubuntu) uses it and  
whether it could provide some font rendering improvement over the  
"auto-hinting" process provided by default by freetype (I think that  
particularly on lower resolution TFT screens it would). Apparently it is  
possible to activate this bytecode interpreter at compilation time -as  
freetype author states distributions such as Fedora has deactivated it by  
default to avoid patent issues-. There is a discussion of this issue here  
http://freetype.org/patents.html and also here  
http://david.freetype.org/cleartype-patents.html. I have no idea how to  
modify the appropriate line in the code of freetype libraries -or whatever is  
implied-, so if there is any chance to have either the instructions to do it  
or have an alternative package for testing with the bytecode interpreter  
activated I would be willing to test it and report results.Thanks.