Hard to keep track of these things - but shouldn't affect the fact that one can safely implement OpenType rendering without a "licence" from Adobe or Microsoft.
On 7 November 2011 13:21, Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/11/7 Christopher Fynn <[email protected]>: >> I'm sure people like RedHat, Debian, and Sun/Oracle (who use it in >> OpenOffice) - have satisfied themselves that the open type rendering >> they use is unencumbered. > > Actually now, this (OpenOffice) should no longer be Sun/Oracle but > Apache. Oracle has donated OpenOffice to Apache that accepted it. > Since the ecqusiation of Sun by Oracle, some OpenOffice developers > were unhappy with Oracle and splitted the project in LibreOffice; not > sure that both projects will merge again now that OpenOffice goes to > Apache, but Apache has stated that both projects could live now (there > are some differences in the GUI, but many developers are already > trying to make modules that works on both projects). For now > OpenOffice is still branced by Oracle in the current distribution, > this may change in the next major relase showing the Apache branch, > once all IPR issues are solved between Oracle and Apache. >
