Hi, > > What do the respective upstream projects think of those patches? Do they > refuse to merge them because of patent concerns? And are those patches > binary-compatible? (We definitely don't want to replace the libraries with > binary-incompatible versions.) >
Yes , they are binary compatible. Author of these patches is actualy David Turner, author of freetype. Lot of explanations about patents is available from his mails http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo-bugs/2007-March/000912.html http://osnews.com/story/18166/Interview-with-David-Turner-of-Freetype/ > Would you be willing to work on libXft-freeworld and cairo-freeworld > packages using the same type of setup as freetype-freeworld (not replacing > the Fedora package, but overriding the shared library) and submit them for > review at RPM Fusion? I'd review them for you (though if you aren't > sponsored in Fedora or RPM Fusion yet, you also need a sponsor). Yes, i would love to. Hopefully we will be able to add them to rpmfusion. > > And are there any other packages Ubuntu is patching? Pango? Qt 4? No, just cairo and libXft. David -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
