On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 June 2017 at 21:47, Robert Foss <robert.f...@collabora.com> wrote: >> From: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> >> >> This is required by freedreno at least for GLES3 support. >> >> See docs/patents.txt for information about turning this on for s/w >> renderers. >> > I'm inclined to agree with Tapani. We're not lawyers and with the > patent expiring in half a year, I think we can defer this toggle to > builders and their legal teams ;-)
It's not expiring in half a year. ARB_texture_float references US Patent #6,650,327 [1]: which was filed June 16 1998. According to [2], the patent expires 20 years from the filing date, giving an expiration of June 17 2018. So, 1 year and 1 day. And for good measure, the patent on S3TC [3] expires Oct 2 2017. I think we should have a party :) [1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6650327 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent_in_the_United_States [3] https://www.google.com/patents/US6775417 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
