-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timothy Normand Miller schrieb:
> > Thank you for that survey. We could possibly investigate one of those > royalty-free methods. Do you know what exactly it is about the > patented one that is patented? I would assume that it's the > compression technique (like how LZW was patented), but there may be > something else. AFAIK it's both compression and decompression. Therefore Mesa can't do S3TC compression even on hardware that supports it. Mesa has an interface to the external libtxc_dxtn, which is distributed from switzerland where they don't have software patents yet. You can read the patent at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=13&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=5956431&OS=5956431&RS=5956431 Philipp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF5D9QbtUV+xsoLpoRAnJ5AJwJHvhbwG6blfuJ2QcitzcQIYCqsQCg6rsr boD2pDb4G9/2uKv03o0xRwk= =P/58 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
