[PATCH 4/5] os: remove unused set_font_authorizations function
Thomas Dickey
dickey at his.com
Fri Jun 11 11:47:15 PDT 2010
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Sorry, but set_font_authorizations is used - it's called from libXfont.
>
> (Well, it's used in theory - I don't think anyone ever really used the
> font server license/authorization checking support.)
It used to be one of the nuisances in installing Oracle was the Sun
licensed fonts, which wouldn't display in arbitrary places. Where was
that check made?
(eventually Oracle supplied installers that didn't rely on Sun's fonts)
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Thomas E. Dickey
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