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Re: [developers] Freetype 2.4.0 and patents



On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:03:33AM +0100, A.Haq Abbad wrote:
> Salam everyone
> 
> Re: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.0/NEWS/view
> 
> As you all might've heard, all patents regarding the TrueType bytecode
> interpreter have expired worldwide.
> 
> Does that help small Arabic fonts under Linux in anyway? As at the moment, they
> don't look that nice :)

If the fonts are not manually hinted (which is a missive effort only a
handful of fonts have undergone), it will not make any difference.

> I hope Linux distro's didn't not enable it by default already!

It is already on in Ubuntu (and I think Debian IIRC), not sure about
other distros.

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer