[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] sun.java2D.Pisces renderer Performance and Memory enhancements

[Phil Race]

>From http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html

"The OCA gives Oracle and the contributor joint copyright interests in 
the code ..."

So you can't use AGG since you don't have the rights to contribute it under
OCA terms.

Also I don't think we want to swap out pisces and start to re-invent things.
Better to improve what we already have

-phil.

On 5/29/2013 5:19 AM, Andrea Aime wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Laurent Bourgès 
> <bourges.laurent at gmail.com <mailto:bourges.laurent at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Seems very interesting ... I just looked at the documentation.
>
>     AGG code would be worth to look at but somebody should check if
>     their license is compatible with openjdk license terms.
>
>
> I'm not a lawyer, so take this with a grain of salt, but the most up 
> to date code base does not seem compatible, however
> the lightweight rasterizer I pointed you at is under the LGPL, so it 
> _should_ be compatible.
> I have memories that the rasterization techinique is coming from 
> libfreetype, so that's another one that might be worth
> looking at (and I guess OpenJDK already depends on it to handle fonts 
> under Linux? not sure)
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
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