The freetype package has a bindist useflag that controls subpixel rendering with the cleartype methodology. All the patents listed at https://www.freetype.org/patents.html have expired today. Thus I believe the bindist flag can be removed and the feature can be always enabled.
Having had a look a moment ago at all the Google Patents links posted on the aforementioned FreeType Web page, US6282327, US6393145 and US6624828 are still listed as active.
(In reply to Marek Szuba from comment #1) > Having had a look a moment ago at all the Google Patents links posted on the > aforementioned FreeType Web page, US6282327, US6393145 and US6624828 are > still listed as active. It seems that Google Patents have now been updated. All of them seem to be expired.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=20eb0f81df1625322f4a2a8e9ac3a12af03a99fe commit 20eb0f81df1625322f4a2a8e9ac3a12af03a99fe Author: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-03-27 13:46:53 +0000 Commit: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-03-29 08:06:15 +0000 media-libs/freetype: Drop IUSE=bindist and bindist restriction Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/691052 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.17, Repoman-3.0.2 Signed-off-by: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> media-libs/freetype/freetype-9999.ebuild | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
