On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Frank Cox wrote:
It may yet be too early to get a definite answer about this, but I'm wondering what the status of the formerly patented bytecode interpreter in freetype will be in RHEL/Centos 6 and possibly future updates to RHEL/Centos 5.
CentOS just rebuilds sources to conform to certain goals -- the 'upgrades / freshenings' request department is on a list run by the upstream
https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv6-beta-list
That said, I saw speculation picked up in a aggregator run by Infoworld <?> that the RHEL 6 stabilization was going slower than expected and that a gold by EOY was a new target date.
While this may induce a reluctance to change matters too much, a closer to the 'leaf node' package such as freetype may be 'doable' if you ask, and as I recall, RFE it in their Bugzilla; requests with working caldidates agains their public beta may also change how such a request is viewed [based upon my years of 'kremlinology' as to Raleigh]
-- Russ herrold