Bug 305

Summary:	RFE: Enable the FreeType2 bytecode interpreter on Solaris
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Roland Mainz <roland.mainz>
Component:	* Other	Assignee:	Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	high	CC:	alan.coopersmith, xorg
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	SPARC
OS:	Solaris
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Roland Mainz 2004-03-13 20:23:15 UTC

RFE: Enable the FreeType2 bytecode interpreter on Solaris.
Sun uses an own font engine for Solaris/Xsun to rasterize TrueType fonts which
seems to have the bytecode interpreter enabled.
The question is now: Is that license for the bytecode interpreter for "Solaris"
in general or only for the Xsun code in xc/lib/font/TrueType/ ?
If the license applies to "Solaris" in general I suggest to turn the bytecode
interpreter on (otherwise a bunch of fonts shipped with Solaris (like those for
the Korean locale) look like squished chicken footprints).

Comment 1 Roland Mainz 2004-03-13 20:24:00 UTC

Over to Alan...

Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2004-03-13 22:11:48 UTC

Anyone wanting to use the code that is reported to be covered by Apple patents 
must either obtain their own license for those patents as explained at
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html or obtain their own legal opinion
that a license is not necessary for their usage.   Sorry.

Comment 3 Roland Mainz 2004-03-13 22:41:36 UTC

Uhm... does that mean that every product from Sun (e.g. Xsun, JAVA,
OpenOffice/StarOffice) which has it's own TrueType font handling code has a
seperate license from Apple ?!

Comment 4 Alan Coopersmith 2004-03-14 11:09:16 UTC

I'm sorry, but I can't comment on the state of Sun's legal agreements with other
companies.  I can point out that the feature you want enabled isn't even enabled
in the FreeType 2.1.x packages we ship in Solaris.

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