-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Allen Akin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:30:18PM +0100, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > | However OpenGL 3 will not work out of the box on a new Linus > | installation. It will not work on a PC that came pre-installed with Linux. > > I'm not working with Khronos these days, so I'm not privy to the > discussions about including S3TC in OpenGL. However, based on past > discussions in the ARB, I don't think we should automatically conclude > that OpenGL 3 won't work out-of-the-box. The licensing terms will > determine what can be done. > > It's possible that the license will permit royalty-free unlimited > redistribution of decompression code with Mesa, in which case we don't > have a problem. > > It's possible that the license only applies to hardware implementations, > in which case Mesa isn't even involved. > > So I'd recommend contacting Khronos and asking what the licensing terms > are likely to be, when they'll be finalized, and whether there's any > process to influence them (if they seem to be headed in the wrong > direction).
The problem is that, as far as I'm aware, the IP in question isn't owned by Khronos or a member company. I'll look into this. I also recommend that other folks on the list that work for member companies (*cough*Intel*cough*Nokia*) do the same. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHKPhwX1gOwKyEAw8RAhYFAKCeTogXQTvtA5dlWkzIIQU76jJIAACffzj3 8uQ8nKN2Uy4GHZG1IaD/VaQ= =+CmP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
