Re: Article on wine development strategy

[Remco]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Henri Verbeet  wrote:
> 2009/4/18 Ben Klein :
> > Right now, there's one thing bugging me: bug 14939. If Dan (or others)
> > would like to implement a method of deferring S3TC texture
> > decompression to the appropriately licensed GPU, assuming there are no
> > legal issues with this, I'd be ecstatic. But I'm sure the D3D devs
> > have better things to do. :)
>
> The sad thing is that S3TC decompression is just plain trivial.

Maybe that could be solved in the same way as the patented Freetype
code: disable it by default, but let commercial Wine packagers (and
individual users obviously) have the choice of compiling it in.
Something like ./configure --paid-for-patents.

Remco