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by ggm 840 days ago
Have the patents expired?
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azornathogron 840 days ago
If you're talking about the TrueType bytecode patents, yes, they expired nearly 14 years ago: https://freetype.org/patents.html

But I don't think that's relevant here anyway, since the article refers to the auto-hinter which as far as I know was never patent-encumbered.

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