On 1/10/07, Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 12:53 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote: > > Is the patented hinting algorithm still disabled in freetype? > If so, was an audit performed after OIN creation to determine if it's > now possible to enable it? Yes, it's disabled still. We'll probably wait until that patent expires (~2010). How does OIN affect real genuine patents with no prior art? OIN is to counter-attack rather bogus patent claims, not to allow us violate whatever patent we want. MP3 comes to mind first.
Thanks for the clarification. Of course I am not proposing to violate any valid patent here. I probably did not understand the goals of the OIN and how its portfolio would be leveraged. I thought OIN could be also used for some patent swap deal, but this is probably not possibile. /me just hates patents on software and hopes they will be banned one day... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
