Hi, Because it is being a topic of great interest to the licenses of the packages, I question, because I'm not good at anything legal issues: This package with this option enabled, not is problematic in legal terms? http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html Personally in my machine, I recompiled this package without the patch, I prefer the auto-hinting from freetype2, because fonts looks better (at least on CRT), I know that this can be configured with fontconf, but because some programs/libs based on xpdf libs (example poppler*, kpdf), look at headers at compile time instead of using fontconfig I recompile these packages too. Searching in the bug tracker i found this old ticket http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/2033 Citation from ftoption.h: /* Define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER if you want to compile */ /* a bytecode interpreter in the TrueType driver. Note that there are */ /* important patent issues related to the use of the interpreter. */ /* */ /* By undefining this, you will only compile the code necessary to load */ /* TrueType glyphs without hinting. */ /* */ /* Do not #undef this macro here, since the build system might */ /* define it for certain configurations only. */ Thanks for your time. -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D