Bug 612395

Summary: The patents have expired!
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ernesto Manríquez <alejandronova>
Component: freetypeAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: behdad, fonts-bugs, kevin, mlists
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Description Ernesto Manríquez 2010-07-08 05:37:09 UTC
According to http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690621 , we can safely enable the bytecode interpreter in Fedora and all the code covered by those patents. They have expired since May, 2010.

Legal, is this safe? Can we make a quick import of the RPM Fusion package into Fedora?

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2010-07-08 05:44:44 UTC
They expired in October 2009 in fact.

We enabled them, but had to disable since it caused regression with autohinting stuff.  There's a bug filed about it with lots of history, can't find it right now.

Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2010-07-08 06:38:54 UTC
Bug 547532.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 12:28:21 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-09-22 13:54:51 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-09-22 13:59:59 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 6 Ernesto Manríquez 2011-05-17 02:34:46 UTC
The patented bytecode is with us since Fedora 15 Beta.