A supposedly patent-free suggestion/solution to the curious subpixel rendering in Fedora

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Fri Mar 27 21:58:10 UTC 2009


On 03/27/2009 05:44 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 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?

Oops.  Seems like an unintentional change I committed while fixing the 
ligature bug.

/me disables both

>          Kevin Kofler




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