Re: [ft-devel] "Inside the fastest font renderer in the world" - first C version attached

[Raph Levien]

We have permission to adapt the code and integrate it into FreeType under the FreeType license. I've followed up with Graham offline with a bit more detail.

Hope that clears things up, and let me know if there are any remaining concerns.

Thanks,

Raph

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Raph Levien <address@hidden> wrote:

I'm looking into the licensing question and will get back to you soon.

Raph

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:16 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have successfully converted part of Raph Levien's code - that is,
> the floating-point rasterizer, not the TTF parser - into C, and it
> seems to work well, although I have run only a few small tests so
> far and have not yet benchmarked the speed.

A big thank you, Graham!  Very much appreciated.  I don't know yet,
however, when I will find some time to work on it.

In case you want to do further integration into FreeType, please post
your results here :-)

> One point that I may have to address is that there are declarations
> after statements, which seems to be OK in C nowadays, but wasn't
> formerly, I know; but that can be fixed trivially.

OK.

> The code is attached. Naturally I have credited Raph and used the
> same license. There are documentation comments in the source.

Regarding the license: Raph, would it be possible to add
dual-licensing with GPL2 to the C code, or to change the C code to the
two licenses that come with FreeType?  Reason is that Apache 2.0 is
not compatible with GPL2.


    Werner