Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The OpenGL ARB working group just released an update on its plans on > OpenGL 3 (see opengl.org). > > They intent to make S3TC texture compression part of OpenGL 3. > > S3TC is patented, the patent expires in 2017. > > I suppose this would mean that there will be no free OpenGL > implementation before 2017. The free software community would have to > create it's own 3D API to replace OpenGL. > > Philipp > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHJ6lUbtUV+xsoLpoRApm1AJ9k8sK3c7RDcJ5h18WoqQVrcVKdBwCePoJF > wvGocEbeFTGWJAWIuh+jbNE= > =jNJQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Hopefully such kind of patent are still void in many country, i also believe that only the compression algorithm is patented (i hope you can't patent more than the algorithm...) so if we have another algorithm which produce the same output given the same input without using the algorithm then we are fine. I believe people worked on this lately. Otherwise mesa could still do opengl 3 without supporting ST3C and hide this from application POV. Beside, to the best of my knowledge, i don't think mesa ever have been certified as an opengl implementation, so mesa is not exactly an opengl implementation. Mesa provide somethings that taste, feel and smell like an opengl implementation without being one (ie doesn't have the fancy logo on the side of the box, doesn't even have box, poor of us :)).
So i don't have any fear on that topics, maybe i am too naive :) Cheers, Jerome Glisse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
