[MPEG-OTSPEC] MATH Encumbrance

[Dave Crossland]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020, 12:11 AM Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020, 9:58 PM Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
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>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020, 8:32 PM Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 2:11 PM Peter Constable <pgcon6 at msn.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems to me that there’s a good case study in that
>>>> TrueType/TTO/OpenType have been with us for about 30 years and that, AFAIK,
>>>> there have never been any patent suites or demands for licensing royalties
>>>> throughout that time. (Someone correct me if I’m overlooking something.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's not enough. Fedora continued turning off subpixel-rendering and
>>> bytecode-interpretter in FreeType as long as the relevant MS patents were
>>> not expired.
>>>
>>
>> Those were held by Apple, as I recall
>>
>
> Subpixel-rendering was ClearType.
>

Ok cool, makes sense.

When did Fedora turn on spr?

When did OFF 1.0.0 come out?

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