On 08/13/2013 01:42 PM, Roland Mainz wrote:
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) ?
I didn't bring it up. Don't ask me! :)
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Bye,
Roland
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