Under which license is the FreeType 2 auto-hinter released?
The auto-hinter was initially designed and implemented under contract for Catharon Productions, Inc which gladly accepted to released it under an open-source license compatible with the FreeType one. This license can be found in src/autohint/CatharonLicense.txt and requires that you cite Catharon Productions in your documentation (just like you do with FreeType) when using the auto-hinting module. Other than that, you still have the same freedom than with the good old FreeType license. Enjoy! III.2 How does the auto-hinter work? Well, a complete description would be difficult. Have a look at the dedicated auto-hinter pages on the FreeType site, as they describe most of its details with graphics and explanations. You could also look at the source code if you want to 🙂 To give a few details, the auto-hinter is used to perform grid-fitting on scalable font formats that use Bézier outlines as their primary glyph image format (this means nearly all scalable font formats today). If a given
