From kde-licensing Tue Jul 23 13:11:19 2013 From: Mirko Boehm Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:11:19 +0000 To: kde-licensing Subject: Re: Possible S3TC patent issue in kdelibs Message-Id: <80F4D603-AB25-4A4A-A4A5-A44729DAC08E () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-licensing&m=137458517014223 Hi! It is quite hard to figure out what exact patents are relevant for S3TC. Both the Wikipedia page as well as http://dri.freedesktop.org only say the technology is patent encumbered. Does anybody have more information about this? Cheers, Mirko. On Jul 18, 2013, at 16:18, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Until there's a shown active threat in regard to a specific software > patent there's no point worrying about it, else we'd worry about every > piece of code. > > There's no point worrying about it anyway, KDE generally only ships > source code which isn't affected by patents and patents only apply in > a limited number of countries (in software typically just the US), no > reason why the rest of the world should be limited by them. At most > we should send a note to our downstreams. > > Jonathan > > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-licensing mailing list > Kde-licensing@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-licensing -- Mirko Boehm | mirko@kde.org | KDE e.V. FSFE Fellow, FSFE Team Germany Qt Certified Specialist _______________________________________________ Kde-licensing mailing list Kde-licensing@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-licensing