From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R8DTj-0000h5-1O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:52:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E51F21C199; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.alltele.net (m1.alltele.net [85.30.0.4]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30A621C0E8 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([87.227.57.71]) by smtp.alltele.net (IceWarp 10.3.2) with ESMTP id JYX89013 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:49:13 +0200 Message-ID: <4E809EF9.60209@coolmail.se> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:49:13 +0200 From: pk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110901 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FreeType unpatented auto-hinter? References: <4E809692.7050005@nileshgr.com> In-Reply-To: <4E809692.7050005@nileshgr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.27 required=7.00 tests=LOCALPART_IN_SUBJECT=1.56,RATWARE_RCVD_BONUS_SPC=1.00,MR_NOT_ATTRIBUTED_IP=0.20,SMILEY=-0.50,NO_RDNS2=0.01,MR_DIFF_MID=1.00 version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Level: *** X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (1.1) on smtp.alltele.net X-CTCH: RefID="str=0001.0A0B0204.4E809EFA.00B7,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0"; Spam="Unknown"; VOD="Unknown" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9d5f212497a583f999cf5c2922e3a9e5 On 2011-09-26 17:13, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > What is the difference between this unpatented auto hinter and the > TrueType BC interpreter? As far as I know, the truetype byte code interpreter patent expired about 2 years ago... See: http://www.osnews.com/story/18166/Interview-with-David-Turner-of-Freetype/ ...but don't take my word for it... If you really need to know for sure - contact a lawyer[1]. [1] IANAL :-) Best regards Peter K