On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> wrote: > On 08/13/2013 01:27 PM, Roland Mainz wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Ian Romanick <i...@freedesktop.org> >> wrote: >>> On 08/13/2013 11:53 AM, Uwe Schmidt wrote: [snip] >>> Until S3 grants it's IP to OIN or the patents expire, this is going to be >>> the situation. We've been through this mental exercise of the last 5 >>> years >>> more times than I can count, and we always come back to the same place. >> >> Please don't hit me with a stick if this has been asked >> |powl(INT64_MAX, INT64_MAX)| times... but... erm... adding the code >> (sample implementation, "... do not use without a license from S3 and >> the ritual scarification of at least one software engineer...") but >> having it off in the default build won't work... right ? > > That is more difficult for end-users than the current situation. In the > current situation, your distro can build Mesa (no S3TC), and, if you live in > a country without software patents, you can just "drop in" the libtxc_dxtn > library to get compression. Putting it in Mesa, along with making the > distros really uncomfortable, would mean you'd have to rebuild Mesa.
Sounds reasonable for me... > Did I mention that we've been through this mental exercise a few times? Erm... I'm wondering... why does the S3TC issue come up every few months out of it's grave and haunt the list (and your nerves) ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev