Hey,
With the S3TC patent expired[1], can we pull libtxc_dxtn into Fedora proper now?
[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=S3TC-Patent-Expires-...
On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 14:46 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
Hey,
With the S3TC patent expired[1], can we pull libtxc_dxtn into Fedora proper now?
This seems to be going directly into mesa proper and probably backported to older (17.x) mesa-s that Fedora cares about.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=04396a134f003aece573df593a...
-Yanko
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On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Yanko Kaneti yaneti@declera.com wrote:
On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 14:46 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
Hey,
With the S3TC patent expired[1], can we pull libtxc_dxtn into Fedora proper now?
This seems to be going directly into mesa proper and probably backported to older (17.x) mesa-s that Fedora cares about.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=04396a134f003aece573df593a...
On the contrary, it looks like it's *not* getting backported because they're removing the dlopen() stuff to go with it, since that's not needed anymore.
On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 07:32 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Yanko Kaneti yaneti@declera.com wrote:
On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 14:46 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
Hey,
With the S3TC patent expired[1], can we pull libtxc_dxtn into Fedora proper now?
This seems to be going directly into mesa proper and probably backported to older (17.x) mesa-s that Fedora cares about.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=04396a134f003aece573df593a...
On the contrary, it looks like it's *not* getting backported because they're removing the dlopen() stuff to go with it, since that's not needed anymore.
Fortunately I have git-cherry-pick so I don't have to care what upstream does.
F26 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=979594 F27 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=979591 F28 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=979562
I'll submit bodhi updates once they complete.
- ajax
Hey just ccing to kwizart is not fair , should be to RPMFusion-devel IMHO
Add Obsoletes/provides [1] in mesa.spec would be nice, we need retire the package [2] on RPMFusion repos .
[1] Obsoletes: libtxc_dxtn <= 1.0.1 Provides: libtxc_dxtn = 1.0.1
[2] http://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=127
On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 16:34 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 07:32 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Yanko Kaneti yaneti@declera.com wrote:
On Mon, 2017-10-02 at 14:46 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
Hey,
With the S3TC patent expired[1], can we pull libtxc_dxtn into Fedora proper now?
This seems to be going directly into mesa proper and probably backported to older (17.x) mesa-s that Fedora cares about.
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=04396a134f003ae ce573df593acfa1ab4418ffe8
On the contrary, it looks like it's *not* getting backported because they're removing the dlopen() stuff to go with it, since that's not needed anymore.
Fortunately I have git-cherry-pick so I don't have to care what upstream does.
F26 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=97959 4 F27 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=97959 1 F28 task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=97956 2
I'll submit bodhi updates once they complete.
- ajax
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On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 23:05 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
Hey just ccing to kwizart is not fair , should be to RPMFusion-devel IMHO
Add Obsoletes/provides [1] in mesa.spec would be nice, we need retire the package [2] on RPMFusion repos .
Hadn't done that yet to make it easier for testers to roll back to a working config if the update was broken for some reason, but will do.
- ajax
I'm reading everywhere that the S3TC patents have expired. Howevery, even Wikipedia states that one continuation patent "has a 165 day extension" [1].
So is it really safe to ship S3TC-related code yet?
Best regards,
Colin Finck
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression#Patent
"CF" == Colin Finck colin@reactos.org writes:
CF> So is it really safe to ship S3TC-related code yet?
If your lawyers have advised you differently than Red Hat's lawyers have presumably advised Fedora, then you should certainly follow the advice of your lawyers.
I wouldn't expect a detailed and official response to any questions sent here regarding the issue; that's just not how it generally works when patents are involved. So if you do have legal questions and have not consulted your own lawyers then you certainly should do so.
- J<