At least in the English that I learned, two things that are not the same are different. So I find the claim that "they are more same than different, as such are not different" to be patently false.
On Sep 1, 2017 11:47 PM, "Werner LEMBERG" <w...@gnu.org> wrote: > > > I am contacting you to have some information regarding the patent > > for the LCD subpixel filtering. > > > > I am currently using the Skia library with freetype, and I noticed > > in your website<https://www.freetype.org/patents.html> that there is > > a patent regarding this feature, but it’s really unclear if it’s > > possible to enable it with no risks or not. > > Well, we can't answer this since we aren't lawyers. We can only warn > that it the ClearType LCD filtering stuff is patented... > > > Will it be possible to have more information about it? > > Not from us, sorry. > > > Or is there a safe way to use the feature? > > The next release of FreeType will provide a different LCD sub-pixel > rendering method as the default (called `Harmony'), yielding > approximately identical results. To our best knowledge the new > algorithm is not affected by any patents. > > > Werner > _______________________________________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > Freetype-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel >
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