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

[Callum Lerwick]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 18:45 +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
> 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) ?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2006-11/msg00006.html
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