From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HI6f9-00060V-K2 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:14:23 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HI6f7-0005zy-8x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:14:21 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HI6f1-0005z9-LD for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:14:19 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HI6f1-0005z6-Ia for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:14:15 -0500 Received: from emh03.mail.saunalahti.fi ([62.142.5.109]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HI6f0-0002GD-U2 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:14:15 -0500 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (85-156-49-107.elisa-mobile.fi [85.156.49.107]) by emh03.mail.saunalahti.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552A6158BA9 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:14:10 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <45D5E6F0.3020906@nic.fi> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:16:32 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmVzYSBKw6TDpHNrZWzDpGluZW4=?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200702142115.56055.okuji@enbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200702142115.56055.okuji@enbug.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: External library X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:14:21 -0000 Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > On Tuesday 13 February 2007 23:38, Jason Morganson wrote: >> I was wondering what the group thinks about the use of external libraries >> in GRUB. Is is acceptable to add this kind of dependency? > > If the dependency is reasonable, and if no license/copyright problem exists, > yes. I think directly linking the library might not be a good idea, but stripping it down to only support most important things and adapt font rendering code. FreeType is distributed in both GPL and FreeType licenses. http://freetype.sourceforge.net/license.html >> Would it be >> alright to say... add a configure option to compile in support for the >> Freetype library? > > First I would like to know why you are interested in using FreeType in GRUB. Actually I might be the curlpit for that suggestion ;) See my other partly reposted message. Basicly freetype library gives us a support for using vector fonts and thus we can scale fonts and they still look pretty on larger screens. Of course one can write that from scratch but here we have a library that could be used on the task.