Emils
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/10/0252229&from=rss
"openSUSE 10.2 no longer enables ClearType. (which would improve the appearance of fonts) The reason given on the openSUSE mailing list for not enabling it is, 'this feature is covered by several Microsoft patents and should not be activated in any default build of the library.' As reported on and discussed, this matter may be connected
The quote comes from the upstream freetype author, see include/freetype/config/ftoption.h: /* Note that this feature is covered by several Microsoft patents */ /* and should not be activated in any default build of the library. */ The default of Freetype2 is to not enable it. We did not change the default of the upstream package - it was enabled in the upstream version we used in 10.1 and it was disabled in the upstream version we used in 10.2. We just never changed the default settings.
to the Microsoft-Novell deal. If so, Novell should have received a license for the Microsoft patents, assuming the deal covered all relevant patents. Does the license therefore extend only to SUSE, but not openSUSE?"
We do not have a license for any Microsoft patents, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126