Re: [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-18 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote:  3. Grant of Patent License. Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? Don't you need it first before granting any patent license? This is one strange and curious discussion thread without a patent at

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-18 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On 01/18/2012 10:08 PM, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org wrote: 3. Grant of Patent License. Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? Don't you need it first before granting any patent license? This is one

Re: [ft-devel] FreeType License and patents

2012-01-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Do freetype authors hold or have they filed for a patent? AFAIK, no. Don't you need it first before granting any patent license? We want to cover contributed code. Let's assume that company XXX contributes code to have support for its new font driver format in FreeType, and we accept such