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Re:Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.3 Specification with Major Enha... by ginko on Monday August 06, 2012 @04:12PM (#4347027)
One of the main problems of previous texture compression methods like DXT2 was that they were encumbered in software patents.

This made implementing OpenGL in opensource quite problematic.

Does anyone know if this is also the case for ETC2 / EAC texture compression? I didn't really find any details on this.

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Re:Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.3 Specification with Major Enha... by nitrogen on Monday August 06, 2012 @06:43PM (#4347697)
Read the summary posted by bryanlarsen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4345768

Basically, ETC and ASTC are royalty-free parts of OpenGL.

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