Comment 138 for bug 379761
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(Get the code!)
> ... The whole thing is very controversial
> since those filters are suspected to infringe patents in the US...
But the specific patch mentioned doesn't directly do anything about glyphs. It only enables lcdfilter options if it's _already compiled_ into the system's FreeType libs; that is, any patent issue would lie not in cairo, but in the freetype binaries because the distribution or the user chose to enable patented features, so it shouldn't be a problem for Mozilla source to include that patch. Am I misunderstanding the situation here?