Simon McFarlane wrote: > 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
It says right on the linked page that the bytecode hinting patents expired and the interpreter is now enabled by default. That does not mean the subpixel filtering patents have expired.
