Mesa Now Supports A Bit More Of OpenGL 3.0

[elanthis]

Speaking of patented OpenGL, does anyone know when we can look forward to some of the patents eventually expiring?

About 13 more years for the floating-point patent.

[crazycheese]

I think somebody just broken the law (incl. the moral one) by including patented things in open standard.

Seriously(really) there should be OpenGL and ClosedGL. The patented stuff should be dumped in the latter. This issue should reach Google and Kronos.

OpenMP3...

[Prescience500]

Speaking of patented OpenGL, does anyone know when we can look forward to some of the patents eventually expiring?

[pingufunkybeat]

The patented stuff is being developed outside of Mesa and will not be merged in.

As long as this stuff is patented, you will have to fetch and build your own Mesa.

Aren't software patents great? It's an open standard which you are not allowed to implement.

[saski]

patent issues?

this is weird. I thought OpenGL 3 is widely protected by various patents yet many GL3 functions are being implemented in mesa. So what's the story here? I'm not much of a legal guy so can someone point out what is actually protected by patents and cannot be implemented in free mesa?

thx

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa Now Supports A Bit More Of OpenGL 3.0

While some Mesa developers spent some time this weekend investigating WebGL issues in open-source drivers as noted by Firefox developers, Brian Paul and others have been tackling support for some new OpenGL extensions...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTAyMQ