Interview with David Turner of Freetype
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| If the patent owner of hinting gives the Freetype project a free license,
| would you accept it?
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| David Turner: It really depends on the terms of this "free license".
| Basically if it means the patent can not be freely re-licensed to other
| people, I really don't see why I would find that useful. If you
| absolutely need the bytecode interpreter, you can be patient and wait
| for October 9, 2009, when the patents expire.
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| There is no clear answer as to what is best. Personally, I can't stand
| native TrueType hinted fonts anymore, they look too distorted to me,
| even if their contrast is better. My favorite Linux distribution is
| Ubuntu at the moment, and the first thing I do after installing it is
| to wipe the version of FreeType provided with it to get rid of the
| bytecode interpreter :o)
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| Also, I still don't understand why Debian and Ubuntu keep
| distributing patent-infringing code in FreeType, while they keep
| MP3 and DVD playback out of their normal installs. I'm not even
| sure it's DFSG compliant...
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18166/Interview-with-David-Turner-of-Freetype/
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