[Bug 612395] New: The patents have expired!

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Summary: The patents have expired!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=612395

           Summary: The patents have expired!
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: low
         Component: freetype
        AssignedTo: behdad(a)fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: alejandronova(a)gmail.com
         QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
                CC: behdad(a)fedoraproject.org, kevin(a)tigcc.ticalc.org,
                    fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
    Classification: Fedora


According to http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690621 , we can safely
enable the bytecode interpreter in Fedora and all the code covered by those
patents. They have expired since May, 2010.

Legal, is this safe? Can we make a quick import of the RPM Fusion package into
Fedora?

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