On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:15:27PM +0200, Lennart Weller wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Lennart Weller <[email protected]>
>
>
> * Package name : nvidia-texture-tools
> Version : 2.0.8
> Upstream Author : Ignacio Castano <[email protected]>
> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/nvidia-texture-tools/
> * License : MIT/Expat, BSD-2-clause
> Programming Lang: C++
> Description : image processing and texture manipulation tools
>
> NVIDIA Texture Tools is a collection of image processing and texture
> manipulation tools, designed to be integrated in game tools and asset
> conditioning pipelines. The primary features of the library are mipmap and
> normal map generation, format conversion and DXT compression.
>
> The sourcecode contains algorithms protected by US patent 5,956,431 aka
> S3TC.
> Though from what I've read on debian-legal this should be okay as the patent
> is not actively enforced.
Since you've accepted as fact that this software infringes those
patents, it looks like you're about to violate item 1 of the Debian
patent policy.
Ben.
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