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Intel using DXVK (part of Steam Proton) for their Windows Arc GPU DX 9 drivers
8 Dec 2022 at 11:18 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: cprnActually, can they legally make improvements and not contribute the changes back upstream? Doesn't Zlib license forbid that? I know it doesn't say so explicitly but it was approved by FSF and I though all FSF approved licenses were based on this premise. Also, if it doesn't, how can it be described as "compatible with GPL"?

Requirement to provide any modifications as open source that GPL has is usually called "strong copyleft". Licenses like Zlib allow modifications to be distributed without requirement to provide the source code. That's called "weak copyleft".

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Intel using DXVK (part of Steam Proton) for their Windows Arc GPU DX 9 drivers
7 Dec 2022 at 11:48 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Liam DaweThey include the license as-is, so it's perfectly legal to use the DXVK code like they are AFAIK.

At least release notes mention DXVK developers.

But I wonder what's their motivation for such obfuscation in the code in the first place. It's going some extra length for sure.

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Intel using DXVK (part of Steam Proton) for their Windows Arc GPU DX 9 drivers
7 Dec 2022 at 11:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: WorMzySomeone needs to tell "Longhorn" about grep -i. >_>

Lol. I use rg -i these days.

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Intel using DXVK (part of Steam Proton) for their Windows Arc GPU DX 9 drivers
7 Dec 2022 at 11:44 pm UTC Likes: 6

Hm, original license is Zlib, so it's not strong enough as GPL to prevent Intel from doing such shady stuff. However it mentions this:

– Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
be misrepresented as being the original software.

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Intel using DXVK (part of Steam Proton) for their Windows Arc GPU DX 9 drivers
7 Dec 2022 at 11:21 pm UTC Likes: 19

Interesting, but not giving credit by name to the project they directly benefit from is very poor taste, especially when they boast about performance improvements which no doubt prompted them to turn to dxvk in the first place.

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Dome Keeper adds new cave types and little critters to make exploration more interesting
6 Dec 2022 at 4:10 pm UTC Likes: 1

The usual. I don't really care about GOG SDK. Is it a multiplayer game? Why is it mandatory then?

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2 Dec 2022 at 4:59 pm UTC Likes: 3

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Mesa 22.3 open source graphics drivers released
2 Dec 2022 at 12:02 am UTC Likes: 3

I think pipeline callables is what's missing in radv now for ray tracing to work in Cyberpunk 2077.

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Mesa 22.3 open source graphics drivers released
1 Dec 2022 at 6:26 pm UTC Likes: 1

Congrats on plans to buy RX 7900 XTX, Liam!

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Portal with RTX releases on December 8th
30 Nov 2022 at 5:53 am UTC Likes: 6

Calling ray tracing RTX is misleading, unless they mean it's going to work with Nvidia only. RTX refers to Nvidia only hardware that implements ray tracing.

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