| ID | Category | Title | Creator | Status | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 245 | legacy | Drop the patented compressed DDS format and use an open source alternative for the main builds (JPEG perhaps?) | Mario | FAILED | 1:3(4 abstained, 18 didn't vote) |
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| User | Decision | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Antibody | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| divVerent | NO | The patent situation is known, however applies only to our build system (non commercial, so royalty free), graphics cards and possibly graphics drivers. DarkPlaces only shuffles the data around. Also, S3TC is not required, as we have a patent free fallback software decoder in darkplaces. On our build system we could alternatively use the patent free S2TC compressor which is compatible (but |
| Halogene | ABSTAIN | I have no opinion to share about this. |
| MrBougo | ABSTAIN | slightly lower quality) and thus get rid of any patent issues, should our use no longer count as non commercial. So the costs are zero, and the benefit is way faster loading speed than with a JPEG build. |
| Nitroxis | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| Archer | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| bitbomb | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| Debugger | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| detrate | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| FruitieX | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| GATTS | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| IDWMaster | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| JH0nny | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| kuniu | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| Mario | YES | |
| matthiaskrgr | NO | I delegate my vote to div0 here |
| merlijn | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| Mirio | ABSTAIN | |
| packer | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| s1lence | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| Samual | NO | What divVerent said |
| sev | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| Soelen | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| Sydes | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| theShadow | NONE | (auto-abstain due to inactivity) |
| zykure | ABSTAIN |