[MPEG-OTSPEC] MATH Encumbrance

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 10:21 PM Dave Crossland <dcrossland at google.com>
wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>> 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?
>

I don't remember. CC Nicolas. Not earlier than 2018.


> When did OFF 1.0.0 come out?
>

2007?
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