On 11/30/2012 6:14 PM, g....@free.fr wrote:
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>> De: "Wolf" <lailavrazda1...@gmail.com>
>> À: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org>
>> Envoyé: Vendredi 30 Novembre 2012 23:29:03
>> Objet: Re: [lfs-dev] BLFS & Freetype patents
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>> On 11/30/2012 4:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> Wolf wrote:
>>>> Is the sed command in BLFS still necessary for subpixel rendering?
>>>> The link given, http://www.freetype.org/patents.html says that all the
>>>> patents have expired, and that the functionality has been enabled
>>>> by default since version 2.4.
>>>
>>> If you look at the code, FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING is still
>>> commented out in include/freetype/config/ftoption.h.  That definition is
>>> still used in src/smooth/ftsmooth.c and src/base/ftlcdfil.c.
>>>
>>>      -- Bruce
>>>
>> Oh, sounds like an oversight in freetype, then.
>>
>>
> No
> Using diff -ur freetype-2.3.12/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h 
> freetype-2.4.10/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h | grep BYTE
> would show you that you mixed the bytecode hinting feature 
> (TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER selected by default since 2.4) with 
> the subpixel rendering setting (TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER, not 
> selected by default in 2.4)
>
> Some patents expire in 2019 according to wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
>
> Gilles
>
Oh, I see. Never mind, then.

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