Status of AGG support?

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Paul Spencer wrote:
>> There has been a lengthy discussion on the AGG list concerning 
>> licenses (and the fact that the license changed in 2.5 from BSD to 
>> GPL), and one of the things that has come out of that discussion is 
>> that some of the new typography stuff is only in 2.5.  AFAIK, 2.4 has 
>> freetype support that seems okay too, I'm not sure what changes are 
>> only in 2.5.
>>
>> We will need to sort out the license issue with Maxim at some point if 
>> we want to take advantage of the enhancements that are in 2.5 
>> (although it is not clear to me that we will need to do so)
>>
> 
> I had not realized that there might be license issues with AGG... 
> perhaps this needs to be added as a note to the RFC.
> 
> Daniel

RFC updated with a licensing note.

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