agree at carltonfields.com wrote:

> At least get the patents (all of which are available both in printable and
> text-searchable form at http:www.uspto.gov) and see what is claimed.  Then, at
> least, you can be assured that you are practicing the prior art.
> 
> (And hey, there is nothing MORE FUN than "engineering around" a patent, trust
> me!  Its easy to do, particularly in "crowded art" areas as Alan suggests
> Truetype finds itself, and its usually successful when undertaken.)


Just to make things clearer: What is it that "we" are afraid of here; is it
the lincense for FreeType held by its developers, or some general patents
(presumably related to TT) that we might infringe on? In the first case, why
not just ask the FT developers what they think about what we want to do? In
the second case, why might this harm us if the FreeType stuff is already
allowed to be out there? Is there anything I'm missing here? Forgive us
international subscribers, our only education in the US legal system comes
from "LA Law". (And software patent suits aren't sexy enough to get onto
Ally McBeal.)

Marcel Weiher wrote:

> Sub-pixel rendering?  Actually calculating partial coverage of
> pixels straight from the outlines or filtering an oversampled bitmap?
> Sounds interesting!

I posted some things about this to the list two months or so ago. Mail me if
you want some material.

Henrik