problem with liberation fonts

[David Hláčik]

Hi,

>
> What do the respective upstream projects think of those patches? Do they
> refuse to merge them because of patent concerns? And are those patches
> binary-compatible? (We definitely don't want to replace the libraries with
> binary-incompatible versions.)
>

Yes , they are binary compatible. Author of these patches is actualy
David Turner, author of freetype.
Lot of explanations about patents is available from his mails

http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo-bugs/2007-March/000912.html
http://osnews.com/story/18166/Interview-with-David-Turner-of-Freetype/

> Would you be willing to work on libXft-freeworld and cairo-freeworld
> packages using the same type of setup as freetype-freeworld (not replacing
> the Fedora package, but overriding the shared library) and submit them for
> review at RPM Fusion? I'd review them for you (though if you aren't
> sponsored in Fedora or RPM Fusion yet, you also need a sponsor).

Yes, i would love to. Hopefully we will be able to add them to rpmfusion.

>
> And are there any other packages Ubuntu is patching? Pango? Qt 4?

No, just cairo and libXft.


David