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