[haiku-commits] Re: r33655 - haiku/trunk/headers/libs/freetype2/freetype/config
- From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:29:36 -0700
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2009-10-19 at 17:25:44 [+0200], scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Author: scottmc
>> Date: 2009-10-19 17:25:44 +0200 (Mon, 19 Oct 2009) New Revision: 33655
>> Changeset: http://dev.haiku-os.org/changeset/33655/haiku
>>
>> Modified:
>> haiku/trunk/headers/libs/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h
>> Log:
>> Second try, this time with the right define in the second case.
>>
>>
>> Modified: haiku/trunk/headers/libs/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h
>> ===================================================================
>> --- haiku/trunk/headers/libs/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h
>> 2009-10-19 15:13:32 UTC (rev 33654)
>> +++ haiku/trunk/headers/libs/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h
>> 2009-10-19 15:25:44 UTC (rev 33655)
>> @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
>> /* define it for certain configurations only.
>> */ /*
>> */
>> #if HAIKU_INCLUDE_PATENTED_CODE
>> -# define FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING
>> +# define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
>> #endif
>
> Note that according to a post from David Turner from two years ago, the
> patent on this ran out on Oct 09 this year.
>
> For the subpixel rendering, I believe we should enable that as well, since
> we do not actually use the Freetype filtering (but our own, based on an ide
> I had myself). We just want Freetype to render glyphs three times as wide,
> which I don't think is patentable...
>
> That should give us nice text rendering in the next alpha.
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>
I believe it's Oct 27, 2009, so a couple more weeks:
http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
In the US it's grant date plus 17 years from granting date, or 20
years from filing date, if filled between 1978 and 1995, for either
case it appears to me that all of the US patents run out by the 27th.
I haven't checked into the Canadian and other patents to see when
those run out. Has anyone else investigated when all these patents
run out that apply to freetype? I suspect there will be losts of
discussion soon on the freetype lists, if there isn't already.
-scottmc
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