Re: [Devel] Re: Bitmap font file reading progress

[Mark Leisher]

    >> I started working yesterday on PCF support in FreeType: I am adapting
    >> the original X code to the FreeType framework.  Besides, the data
    >> structures I am writing down will assure better support in the case of
    >> sparse encodings.
    >> 
    >> As to BDF support, I am really impressed by your work.  I am planning
    >> to reuse your parser: before asking you to work on it I will look
    >> deeper into your code, to find out whether it could be used to read
    >> other formats.  FON/FNT support, for example, is already in FreeType.

    Werner> Francesco, Mark, is it OK for you to put the contributed code
    Werner> under the GPL and the FreeType license?

Anything that Francesco decides to use from xmbdfed is OK to move to whatever
license seems appropriate.
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