A supposedly patent-free suggestion/solution to the curious subpixel rendering in Fedora
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Fri Mar 27 21:44:21 UTC 2009
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Anyway, to make it clear, the reason the filter in Xft and cairo is
> patent-infringing is not because someone copied it from ClearType. No.
> It's infringing because the whole idea of subpixel filtered text rendering
> is patented. You can implement and reimplement and reimplement. Doesn't
> make a difference (until the patents expire).
Why is it enabled in F10 and F11's default freetype then?
Kevin Kofler
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