[arch-dev-public] Adding {lib32-}libtxc_dxtn_s2tc in community/multilib
Laurent Carlier
lordheavym at gmail.com
Mon Dec 17 06:14:55 EST 2012
Le lundi 17 décembre 2012 11:21:50 Pierre Schmitz a écrit :
> 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
If software patents is not a real issue, i propose to:
- Add libtxc_dxtn to [extra]
- Add libtxc_dxtn as optdepend of {ati,nouveau,intel}-dri packages
Regards,
Laurent carlier
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