On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 29th of August 2009 13:03:58+0200, drago01 wrote: >> But using OpenCL instead of dedicated video hardware would result into >> patent problems so that many distros cannot ship it by default. > > Why should patent problems depend on the programming language?
They do not depend on the programming language but whether it is done in software or hardware. >From a patent POV there is no difference between an opencl or a C implementation (you are implementing the patented algorithms), but if you are just talking to hardware decoding chip you don't. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
