Mesa 9.0.3 update

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Wed Mar 6 15:33:44 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 09:03 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > The smiley does not make this less condescending.
> >
> > We will be updating Mesa aggressively.  I said as much on the phone to
> > Valve last week.
> 
> I asked this on the legal list but did not receive a response.
> 
> What's the status of enabling the floating-point features in Mesa? It
> prevents OpenGL 3+ from being advertised.

We've asked our lawyers.  If and when they give the go-ahead, we'll
enable it.  If they don't, we won't.

Feel free to ask your congressman why it's at all sane to allow someone
to patent using floats instead of ints for representing colors.

- ajax



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