[Indic-computing-users] Patents, Hinting and Truetype

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@ya...>]

Shrinath -

Came across this on the Pango page today...  Relavant from your
questions to Apurva Joshi...

"Recently, the possibility has appeared that the hinting TrueType
outlines may be covered by a patent from Apple, which has chilled their
acceptance in the free software community. (The FreeType project is
looking at creating a new renderers that use other techniques to produce
acceptable screen results. Version 2 of FreeType will be able to render
both TrueType and Type1 fonts.)"

Link: http://www.pango.org/font-resources.shtml

-- Tapan