[arch-dev-public] Adding {lib32-}libtxc_dxtn_s2tc in community/multilib

Pierre Schmitz pierre at archlinux.de
Mon Dec 17 05:21:50 EST 2012


Am 17.12.2012 01:53, schrieb Jan Steffens:
> Do we really care about patents enough? Can't we just include the
> standard libtxc_dxtn?
> Even if we care - I heard that S2TC may be encumbered as well.

The only thing we can care about is the license. If it's free software
or we have permission to distribute it, I don't see any problem here. If
we would accept software patents as valid we would not be able to ship
any package.

Greetings,

Pierre

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