In the photocomp era, may different machines were developed that produced the same visual typography using different methods :)
On 2 September 2017 at 19:30, Behdad Esfahbod <beh...@behdad.org> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > Freetype-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel > > -- Cheers Dave
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