On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:10 AM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Then something's screwed up - because the (no longer) patented hinting > is enabled in the freetype configuration header - and it appears to > have been enabled back in October 2009. I even remember the discussion > (and cheering) when it was finally enabled again. > > Even freetype's own website indicates that there are no further patent issues: > > http://www.freetype.org/patents.html Following up myself, I see the cleartype-related subpixel rendering is indeed disabled by default: http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/headers/libs/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h#L79 Does Canonical enable this option by default then as well? - Urias