Request for review: rxvt-unicode, evilwm

[Hans de Goede]

Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 08:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>>-urxvt seems todo some stuff with fonthinting, is it nearly aware of 
>>freetype fonthinting, or does it do stuff with fonthinting itself. I as 
>>because fonthinting is a patented technology and patented technologies 
>>are a no no in Fedora.
> 
> 
> I tried to quickly figure our what you referring to here, but didn't
> really get anywhere... As far as I can tell rxvt-unicode uses either
> core X fonts or the Xft library. It appears to explicitly turn off
> autohinting for some fonts, but that's it. The autohinting is not
> patented, and is shipped with Fedora; turning it off will just give
> entirely unhinted fonts.
> 
> Note that I only looked at the spots I thought seemed obvious, I haven't
> read through all the code... But my first impression is certainly that
> there shouldn't be any legal problem at all with the font handling.
> 

I read about the autohinting in the ChangeLog anf confused this with the 
patented hinting. If autohinting is ok then I think urxvt is ok too.

Regards,

Hans