Stable push request: freetype-freeworld

[Rex Dieter]

On 08/25/2011 08:51 AM, Ken Dreyer wrote:
> 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.

There's more than just BCI at issue, iirc, subpixel rendering per it's 
%description:

...
This version is compiled with the patented subpixel rendering enabled.
...

-- rex