On 29/10/2007, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
Could you give a brief synopsis of what libspiro is?
The primary author of FontForge, George Williams, is not willing to move his project to the GPL from BSD license, in order to take advantage of the Spiro splines developed by Raph Levien. Therefore he has set up a libspiro project that users can download and compile FontForge with, to enable the Spiro functionality now in FontForge.
He hopes that the library will be of use to Inkscape, which will have no problem integrating it, since it is GPL. Still, it would be good for FontForge users to benefit from any improvements, so doing a libspiro project seems like a good idea.
Before the project was set up, users had to download Spiro from Raph's darcs repo, and there was a shim in the FontForge trunk. I wrote a recipe for this at http://understandinglimited.com/2007/10/26/ff-spiro/ but its now stale.