-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of K Sent: 22. juli 2005 09:38 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [ion] 16675: - Freetype Updateto 2.1.10.Reducesmemory usage, increases speed and fixes drawing bugs.
Casper Hornstrup wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of erick Sent: 22. juli 2005 04:27 To: ReactOS Development List Cc: ros-svn@reactos.com Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Re: [ros-svn] [ion] 16675: - Freetype Update to 2.1.10.Reduces memory
usage,
increases speed and fixes drawing bugs.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Steven Edwards wrote:
And before anyone else tries to debate with me patents and the EU I recommend looking up the following patents.
UK 2232861 FR 90 05712
I'll ask a naive question, is it possible to publish through a different jurisdiction... like OpenBSD and SSH required downloads from certain non-US countries?
Erick
The patents only affect the binaries we publish. Since the fonts are so poorly rendered without this, I think we should do what Erick proposed. Release a version with this disabled for people in US, UK, and France and another version with this enabled for the rest of the world. At least for the bootable CD. Just because these 417 million people live in countries that have stupid patent laws, it doesn't mean that the rest of the 6,029 million people in the world shouldn't benefit from this.
Just be sure you release an Antarctica version so everyone can get the good stuff.
Seriously though, you might want to be careful about this road, it may result in compiling a version for each separate country.
Yes. Fortunately we've not come across that many patents that conflict with our goals (2 in 8 years). ReactOS already "violate" the US SEH patent by using a frame-based approach to exception handling on a stack, but if we don't implement it then ReactOS is practically useless. We could choose to release a version without SEH for US citizens, but so far no one has bothered to do so.
Casper