I know nothing about Canadian law, but here in EU software patents, after multiple fierce battles in European parliament, have never been recognised.
This said, afaik, SW patents are just a US hassle. Does it make sense considering them problematic if the OS is "made in Canada"? Il 15/apr/2016 02:17, "Simon McFarlane" <s...@desu.ne.jp> ha scritto: > > On 04/14/16 12:23, Matej Nanut wrote: > > Hello, > > > > OpenBSD's freetype library is built without the feature. > > > > If you have your source trees set up, you can rebuild it after > > uncommenting FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING in > > /usr/xenocara/lib/freetype/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h. > > > > Wow, That did the trick! I was afraid I'd never see beautiful fonts on > OpenBSD. > > The comment above says the feature is covered by Microsoft patents, and > is why it isn't enabled by default. Didn't those patents expire in 2010? > http://www.freetype.org/patents.html > > Thanks, > Simon
