I just noticed a potentially interesting thing. nVidia publishes under the MIT license a software suite called "nVidia texture tools". This includes a library called "nvtt" that provides DXT* compression, plus a library called "nvimage" that provides decompression. It looks like the libraries can be used unmodified and nVidia is almost surely a licensee of that patent.
So, if using and shipping a possibly-patent-covered library published by a patent licensee does not risk violating the patent, we may have a workable solution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
