Comment 74 for bug 164640

Behdad, are you still hesitant to commit this or haven't you got to it yet?

As a note, I don't really think the patents are a concern in this case. As David Turner says, they apply to all subpixel decimation (they would affect what's already in Cairo if they're valid, so not committing isn't saving any trouble), and the issue is already being taken care of by disablement at the source--FreeType.

I'd really like to see this go in before the 1.6 release.