Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:10:06 GMT From: zaa@zaa.pp.ru To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/119906: [PATCH] LCD filtering for print/freetype2 and x11-fonts/libXft ports Message-ID: <200801230610.m0N6A6DA075224@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/119906; it has been noted by GNATS. From: zaa@zaa.pp.ru To: mezz@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: ports/119906: [PATCH] LCD filtering for print/freetype2 and x11-fonts/libXft ports Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:05:05 +0300 On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:12:43AM +0000, mezz@FreeBSD.org wrote: > We normal don't want to maintain any unoffical patches on our own unless we > have to. After looked at a few of bugzilla and mailing list, it's not complete > ready and they are still tweaking. These libraries are maintaining very well > by upstream, so when patches are ready and these will be in the release > tarball. Actually, as far as I understood David Turner <david <at> freetype.org> said that Microsoft has several patents covering the ClearType "technology", so it is very unlikely that the patches will be included into freetype2, libXft, cairo, etc. For example, Ubuntu developers maintain the pathes on their own for quite a while. Anyway, thank you for consideration and all the best to FreeBSD project.
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