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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
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