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Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate by koenigdavidmj on Thursday September 30, 2010 @01:13PM (#1744003)
FreeType has enabled the bytecode interpreter; those patents have all expired.

http://www.freetype.org/patents.html

Unless you are talking about a different set of patents.

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Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate by koenigdavidmj on Thursday September 30, 2010 @10:01PM (#1745693)
Looks like it is too late to edit my own comment. There are indeed two bunches of patents: Apple's (bytecode interpreter) have expired, but Microsoft's (ClearType's subpixel rendering method) have not.
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