Bug 612395 - The patents have expired!
Summary: The patents have expired!
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: freetype
Version: 14
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Marek Kašík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 547532
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-07-08 05:37 UTC by Ernesto Manríquez
Modified: 2011-05-17 02:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-05-17 02:34:46 UTC
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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.
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