LazFreeType: what changed
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| 1 | 1 | The original FreeType was written in Pascal and it has been resuscitated and placed in Lazarus. | |
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| 3 | 3 | ## Subversion | |
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| 5 | 5 | The new LazFreeType project is a part of Lazarus and is located in the directories: | |
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| 7 | 7 | lazarus/components/lazutils lazarus/lcl/lazfreetypeintfdrawer.pas | |
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| 9 | 9 | The old source code of FreeType itself can be downloaded from the lazarus-ccr in: | |
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| 11 | 11 | lazarus-ccr/components/freetypepascal | |
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| 13 | 13 | ## Example applications | |
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| 15 | 15 | Located in the Lazarus SVN | |
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| 17 | 17 | lazarus/examples/lazfreetype/lazfreetypetest.lpi | |
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| 19 | 19 | One needs to place the fonts; arial.ttf, timesi.ttf, verdana.ttf in the same directory as the executable or else set a path in the lazarus/examples/lazfreetype/mainform.pas unit to the font to use. | |
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| 23 | 23 | ## License | |
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| 25 | 25 | From: <http://www.freetype.org/license.html> | |
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| 27 | 27 | FreeType comes with two licenses from which you can choose the one which fits your needs best. | |
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| 29 | 29 | The FreeType License is the most commonly used one. Full text here: <http://www.freetype.org/FTL.TXT> | |
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| 31 | + | ```text | |
| 32 | + | It is a BSD-style license with a credit clause (and thus compatible with GPLv3 but not GPLv2). | |
| 33 | + | ``` | |
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| 33 | 35 | The GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. | |
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| 37 | + | ```text | |
| 38 | + | For all projects which use GPLv2 also or which need a license compatible to the GPLv2. | |
| 39 | + | ``` | |
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| 37 | 41 | ## See Also | |
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| 39 | 43 | - [[Custom Drawn Interface]] | |
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| 41 | 45 | --- | |
| 42 | 46 | *From the Free Pascal wiki, page "LazFreeType", as it stood on 2016-10-28 after a change by E-ric, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).* | |
| 43 | 47 | Category: FreeType |