On 16 June 2017 at 15:45, Matt Turner <matts...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.veli...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 15 June 2017 at 21:47, Robert Foss <robert.f...@collabora.com> wrote: >>> From: Rob Herring <r...@kernel.org> >>> >>> This is required by freedreno at least for GLES3 support. >>> >>> See docs/patents.txt for information about turning this on for s/w >>> renderers. >>> >> I'm inclined to agree with Tapani. We're not lawyers and with the >> patent expiring in half a year, I think we can defer this toggle to >> builders and their legal teams ;-) > > It's not expiring in half a year. > > ARB_texture_float references US Patent #6,650,327 [1]: which was filed > June 16 1998. > > According to [2], the patent expires 20 years from the filing date, > giving an expiration of June 17 2018. So, 1 year and 1 day. > > And for good measure, the patent on S3TC [3] expires Oct 2 2017. I > think we should have a party :) > Apologies for the mix up and thanks for the correction Matt. A S3TC goodbye party sounds like a plan ;-)
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