On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am wondering if the recent legal threats from 3dfx will affect the
> development of Mesa on Voodoo video cards, because Mesa supports such
> cards with glide library. Although Mesa is not a glide wrapper, but what
> if someone writes a glide wrapper that calls Mesa library? We can't risk
> losing support for such hardware due to 3dfx's legal threats.
I don't think they are talking about programs that wrap around a legal
implementation of GLIDE,
They are talking about emulations of GLIDE implemented on other platforms
by writing a GLIDE-compatible library that calls some other lower level
API.
Someone might well write a GLIDE wrapper around Mesa (you call fake-GLIDE,
it calls Mesa and Mesa renders on an nVidia board or something) - but
the Mesa team cannot be held liable for what someone writes around it.
I don't think we have to worry.
Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail)
Raytheon Systems Inc. (817)619-2466 (Fax)
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