S3 texture compression patent

Vincent Béron vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca
Fri Oct 17 10:47:04 CDT 2003


Le ven 17/10/2003 à 11:24, Jonathan Wilson a écrit :
> What specificly does this patent cover and what parts of WINE would it affect?
> (i.e. which bits of windows, if implemented in WINE, would fall under the 
> patent?)

Probably not much, since (IANAL) it'd be the GL driver doing the actual
work. That's why NVIDIA's have it, but Mesa or the open-source ATI
doesn't.

Vincent




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