Stable push request: freetype-freeworld

Ken Dreyer ktdreyer at ktdreyer.com
Thu Aug 25 15:51:08 CEST 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the diff between freetype and freetype-freeworld?  When freetype-
> freeworld was first created, that was cause of patent on the byte-code-
> interpreter, IIRC.  My understanding is that the patent is expired and the
> feature is enabled in freetype now.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/547532. BCI's only enabled in F15 and
beyond, so F14 still needs a -freeworld package. I'm not sure why
there's a freetype-freeworld for F15 and devel.

- Ken


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