On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Laurent Carlier <[email protected]> wrote: > "S2TC is a patent-free S3TC compatible implementation and provides > texture compression to Mesa. The package also includes tools to > compress/decompress S2TC textures and convert S3TC textures to > S2TC ones using the patent-free algorithm." > > Plan is to add these packages in community/multilib. These packages are patent > free S3TC implementation instead of libtxc_dxtn. These are already part of > Ubuntu and Debian. > > There was a bug with etqw/quake4 that i've just fixed, so currently it's > pretty bug-free. > > These packages are not filling requirement, but are essential for games, as > these usually need S3TC support. > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libtxc_dxtn_s2tc > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-libtxc_dxtn_s2tc > > S2TC on github: > https://github.com/divVerent/s2tc > > Regards, > Laurent Carlier
Do we really care about patents enough? Can't we just include the standard libtxc_dxtn? Even if we care - I heard that S2TC may be encumbered as well.
