[ft-devel] Apple Patents on font hinting expired?

[Russell Hay]

Apologies if this is a much revisited topic, but I noticed that in the archives of this mailing list, there are some end dates stated for the relevant Apple patents;

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fr ... 00006.html

<which states that//>

they are, respectively, 1992-10-13 and 1992-10-27, corresponding to expiration 
dates of:

  5,155,805:  October 13, 2009
  5,159,668:  October 27, 2009



...has this 'removed the restrictions on distributing the the bytecode interpreter?


Russ