| Abstract | Freetype 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools. |
| Version | $Revision: 1.1 $ |
| Generated | $Date: 2005/11/09 11:28:31 $ |
| Phase 1 - Identification | |
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| Status | Active |
| Group | Desktop |
| Number | #043 |
| Assigned: 2005-09-29 Original requestor: Pradosh Adoni |
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| Demand | Maybe |
| fontconfig uses freetype-2 and directs a dependency to Xlib (for freetype2) which is an essential component of X11R6.8.2 considered for the "Desktop" | |
| License | Yes |
FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: its own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. It can thus be used by any kind of projects, be they proprietary or not. http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html clearly states that Freetype 2 is NOT affected by any patents, hence there is no hindrance legally or in licensing. |
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| Bestpractice | Yes |
| Freetype 1 provides libttf.so, similar functions but is not used upstream by fontconfig or other applications (due to patent issues related to its bytecode parser.) Other possible candidates like GL_ttf, SDL_ttf have themselves been deprecated by "freetype". GL_ttf has moved development to FTGL (which depends on freetype). SDL_ttf continues to provide ttf support for SDL applications alone. None stand out as strong alternate candidates. | |
| Stable | Unknown |
| Depends | Yes |
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| Phase 2 - Investigation | |
| Rationale | |
| Upstream | Unknown |
| Distros | |
| Versions | Maybe |
The current upstream stable series is 2.1
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| Patches | Maybe |
| patches to support deprecated API which were provided by distro are finally upstream and now are part of stable 2.1.10 | |
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| Phase 3 - Implementation | |
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| Test | |
| Devel | |
| Sample | |
| Appbat | |
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