[Trisquel-devel] Would enabling bytecode interpreter in Freetype cause patents problems or break in some way Trisquel policies?

Rubén Rodríguez Pérez ruben at trisquel.info
Sat Jul 24 12:45:08 CEST 2010


> I enclose here a copy of a question posted in the forum sometime ago
> concerning Freetype in which I am particularly interested -it was
> posted under a different issue, so just in case it went unnoticed-. I
> have read about Apple/Microsoft patents which prevent Freetype from
> using the "bytecode interpreter" in order to render truetype fonts.

AFAIK Ubuntu's freetype package (and hence Trisquel's) already has the
bytecode interpreter enabled by default.


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