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[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 12:53 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> 
> Is the patented hinting algorithm still disabled in freetype?
> If so, was an audit performed after OIN creation to determine if it's
> now possible to enable it? 

Yes, it's disabled still.  We'll probably wait until that patent expires
(~2010).  How does OIN affect real genuine patents with no prior art?
OIN is to counter-attack rather bogus patent claims, not to allow us
violate whatever patent we want.  MP3 comes to mind first.

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behdad
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