From klin@s3.com  Mon Mar 22 09:52:48 1999
From: klin@s3.com
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:43:12 -0800
To: Jon Leech <ljp>
Subject: Re: Draft of minutes for 3/99 ARB meeting - please comment

     Jon,
     
     Sorry not to get back to you any sooner. Here is the S3's statement 
     about S3TC licensing. Could you add it to More Extensions section?
     
     Thanks,
     Kent
     
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    To parties interested in S3TC (DXTn) licensing for use outside of DirectX:
    
    The license agreement between S3 and Microsoft allows Microsoft to license 
    use of the S3TC (called DXTn in the Microsoft DirectX specification) data 
    format, encoder, and decoder only as part of the DirectX API.  It does not 
    allow Microsoft to license the technology for other uses, such as use in an
    OpenGL ICD or in non-Windows operating systems or in non-PC platforms 
    (i.e., set-top boxes, game consoles, etc.).  For this reason, Microsoft is 
    not able to handle licensing for these other uses, and companies wishing to 
    incorporate the technology in these other ways, must request to license it 
    directly from S3.
    
    S3 has invested a great deal of technical and marketing resources 
    in developing and evangelizing this technology.   For this reason, the 
    company is very interested in seeing broad and quick adoption of the 
    texture compression technology by the industry.  We would like to work 
    closely with any companies interested in the technology to move it forward 
    by promoting further hardware support and evangelism.
    
    Interested parties should contact Rick Bergman, V.P. Marketing at
    408/588-8044 for information on licensing.                                 
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