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Patents May Cause Issues For OpenGL 3 In Mesa
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I am not a lawyer.
We will be adding compile-time flags to Mesa for several features over the next few weeks. It will be up to distros and individual users to decide which features they would like to build into their Mesas. Some features will be enabled by default, some will not.
We are not helpless; we do have a plan.
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Originally posted by L33F3R View Postim going to be the oddball out.
Isnt OGG patented?
And im glad you guys have a plan
Vorbis is not patented; some companies have claimed to hold patents against it, but Xiph is confident that it is legally okay to develop and distribute Vorbis.
Theora is patented, but the patents are all well-known and have been released under a very liberal license, effectively making Theora as free as, if not freer than, Vorbis.
S3TC is patented.
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Originally posted by L33F3R View Postim going to be the oddball out.
Isnt OGG patented?
And im glad you guys have a plan
Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source.
Patent retaliation
"Patent retaliation" clauses are included in several free software licences. The goal of these clauses is to create a penalty so as to discourage the licensee (the user/recipient of the software) from suing the licensor (the provider/author of the software) for patent infringement by terminating the licence upon the initiation of such a lawsuit.
The Free Software Foundation included a narrow patent retaliation clause in drafts 1 and 2 of version 3 of the GPL, however, this clause was removed in draft 3 as its enforceability and effectiveness was decided to be too dubious to be worth the added complexity.[14]
Examples of broader clauses are those of the Apache License and the Mozilla Public License.
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