=== Released 1.4.0 ===PANGO_1_4_0

Tue Mar 16 11:24:46 2004  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * === Released 1.4.0 ===

        * configure.in: Version 1.4.0, interface ago 0. Require
        glib-2.4.0.

        * NEWS: Updates.

        * README: Some updates; include details about the FreeType
        license of the OpenType code.

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index 5885b131..3138c268 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -2,16 +2,18 @@ Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
 on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
 is needed; however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the
 GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text
-and font handling for GTK+-2.0.
+and font handling for GTK+-2.x.
 
 Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
-with four different font backends:
+with three different font backends:
 
- - Core X windowing system fonts
  - Client-side fonts on X using the Xft library
  - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library
  - Native fonts on Microsoft backends
 
+(There is also a core-X font backend still present in the code;
+usage of this backend is deprecated)
+
 Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
 combinations of script and font backend.
 
@@ -26,10 +28,10 @@ For more information about Pango, see:
 Dependencies
 ============
 
-Pango depends on version 2.0.0 of the GLib library; more information
+Pango depends on version 2.4.0 of the GLib library; more information
 about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/.
 
-The recommended font backend for X in Pango-1.2 is the Xft backend
+The recommended font backend for X in Pango-1.4 is the Xft backend
 which uses version 2 of the Xft library to manage client
 side fonts. Benefits of the Xft backend include, performance,
 support for OpenType fonts, and antialiasing. Version 2 of
@@ -40,8 +42,9 @@ your system. Both of these libraries are available from
 the same place as fontconfig.
 
 Note that an earlier version of Xft is shipped with version
-of XFree86 up to 4.2. This version does not work with Pango-1.2;
-Pango-1.2 requires version 2 of Xft, which is present in XFree86-4.3.
+of XFree86 up to 4.2. This version does not work with Pango-1.4;
+Pango-1.4 requires version 2 of Xft, which is present in XFree86-4.3
+and newer.
 
 Both Xft and the optional PangoFT2 backend require the fontconfig
 library (http://www.fontconfig.org) to look up fonts. At least version 
@@ -55,12 +58,6 @@ the fonts.conf file, found at $(sysconfdir)/fonts/fonts.conf
 (usually /etc/fonts/fonts.conf) to point at the fonts
 on your system.
 
-There is also a backend that uses core X protocol fonts. This
-backend only requires the standard libraries from the X window 
-system. You should already have these installed on your system, but 
-it's possible that you'll need to install the development environment 
-for these libraries that your operating system vendor provides.
-
 Installation of Pango on Win32 is possible, but is not documented
 here. See http://www.gimp.org/~tml/win32/downloads.html.
 
@@ -77,10 +74,20 @@ Notes
 License
 =======
 
-Pango is licensed under the terms of the 
-GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) - see the file
-COPYING for details.
+Most of the code of Pango is licensed under the terms of the 
+GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) - see the file COPYING for details.
+
+The OpenType code in pango/opentype is derived from the FreeType 
+project (http://www.freetype.org) and is dual-licensed under the 
+GNU Public License and the FreeType license. See see
+pango/opentype/FT-license.txt for full details of the FreeType 
+license.
+
+Note that binary distributions of Pango must include a disclaimer 
+that the software is based in part of the work of the FreeType Team, 
+in the distribution documentation; for instance, by including this 
+README file.
 
 Owen Taylor
 otaylor@redhat.com
-8 August 2002
+16 March 2004