A supposedly patent-free suggestion/solution to the curious subpixel rendering in Fedora

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
>  (It was disabled in F9, it got reenabled in F10, I have no
> idea what the rationale was for each of those decisions.) So these days the
> only difference between freetype and freetype-freeworld is the bytecode
> interpreter.
>   

According to http://www.freetype.org/patents.html, there are 3 patents 
regards bytecode, and 2 of them are filled on May 8, 1989.

Does it mean that this two should expire at May 8, 2009 (after 20 years) ?


~buc