[OpenJDK Rasterizer] Task 2 - line widening

[Jim Graham]

I want to clarify here that my statements below about whether or not and 
how I might be tainted with respect to creating some quick and dirty 
alternate implementations of line widening are personal speculation and 
need to be evaluated by our legal department before we can treat them as 
fact.

My intention was to get the ball rolling and lay out possible obstacles 
that might affect the evaluation of alternative action items.  It was my 
secondary intention to scare up someone external to offer up some code 
and given Roman's responses I think that may have been the result... ;-)

			...jim

Jim Graham wrote:
> - I've seen the encumbered sources so I could probably be considered 
> tainted
> - The main area where I might be considered tainted is in how they 
> preserve curves in the output
> 
> It would be fairly easy to create a standalone polygonal line widener 
> and run all paths through it flattened, but that would give up some 
> quality (at least in the short term).  I could probably do that without 
> even tainting the sources since such algorithms are very straightforward.