Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [Nouveau] [radeonhd] Re: Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-29 Thread Ian Romanick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephane Marchesin wrote: The core issue is that some people do not want to see this code in mesa in whatever form, because they're afraid of lawsuits. Rumour has it that VIA told them that they would sue. And the same things happened with SGI

Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [Nouveau] [radeonhd] Re: Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-29 Thread Luca Barbieri
Interestingly, the post-trial judge opinion at http://wi.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.%5CFDCT%5CWWI%5C2008%5C20080801_734.WWI.htm/qx contains the following text: Plaintiff’s expert, Dr. Stevenson, testified that the ‘327 patent is directed to “a special purpose hardware

Re: [Mesa3d-dev] [Nouveau] [radeonhd] Re: Status of s3tc patent in respect to open-source drivers and workarounds

2010-03-28 Thread Stephane Marchesin
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 18:39, SpliFF spl...@warriorhut.org wrote: On 03/29/10 11:07, Corbin Simpson wrote:On 03/29/10 11:07, Corbin Simpson wrote: Since neither you nor Andrew are lawyers, I would kindly ask that you refrain from attempting to provide legal advice. :3 If you know I'm