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Description of problem: Customer would like for us to to enable subpixel rendering by default. It looks like the changelog for freetype indicates that this SHOULD be happening. ~~~ * Tue Jul 31 2007 Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo> 2.3.5-2 - Change spec file to permit enabling bytecode-interpreter and subpixel-rendering without editing spec file. - Resolves: 249986 ~~~ But their users claim that we're not enabling by default when we build it. --with subpixel rendering is not being set. But, maybe the flag is being passed but the spec file isn't reflecting it? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. none 2. 3. Actual results: subpixel rendering inactive Expected results: Additional info:
The patents on subpixel rendering owned by Microsoft are still valid and should expire in 2019-10-07 (according to Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering): http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6219025 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6239783 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6307566 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6225973 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6243070 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6393145 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6421054 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6282327 http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6624828 Looking at the individual patents you can see that Microsoft still pays maintenance fees. I'm closing this with resolution cantfix. Regards