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Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others')
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Anthony Fok |
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Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others') |
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Thu, 20 Jun 2002 18:43:36 +0800 |
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On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:33:30AM +0200, Vincent Caron wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 21:50, Sebastien BARRE wrote:
> Seeing Mandrake's or RedHat's RPMs of FreeType compiled with the
> TrueType bytecode interpreter, I could only think they purchased a
> license from Apple. However Debian also ships FreeType compiled with the
> bytecode interpreter, and they have a definitively clear policy against
> patents.
Neither Mandrake's or Red Hat's official freetype RPMs have the TrueType
bytecode interpreter enabled, so they are safe.
I maintain the FreeType package for Debian. I turned on the TrueType
bytecode interpreter in the Debian's freetype package because I
personally think that there are prior arts on Apple's patent. For
example, I heard that most of the ideas described in the patent can be
found in TeX, which predates TrueType.
That is my personal decision, not a conscience decision by the whole
Debian Project. Over last year, I have received a few queries from
users about this. If there is a consensus that I should turn off the
bytecode interpreter option in Debian, I can always turn it off, albeit
reluctantly. ;-)
Cheers,
Anthony
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- [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Sebastien BARRE, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Vincent Caron, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Sebastien BARRE, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others'), Vincent Caron, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others'), Vadim Plessky, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others'),
Anthony Fok <=
- Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others'), Vincent Caron, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Apple patents (was `Some numbers smaller than some others'), David Turner, 2002/06/23
- Re: [Devel] Apple patents, Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/20
Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Sebastien BARRE, 2002/06/19
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Sebastien BARRE, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Vadim Plessky, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/20
- Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Werner LEMBERG, 2002/06/20
Re: [Devel] Some numbers smaller than some others (TTF, Type1), Vadim Plessky, 2002/06/20