copyright-spec.txt

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successor to, Khronos specifications including OpenGL, OpenGL ES and OpenCL.

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the Scope of this Specification. The <<introduction-conventions>> section of the
<<introduction>> defines how these parts of the Specification are identified.

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terminology>>, defined in the <<glossary>> or otherwise, that refer to
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architecture, compiler technology, object oriented technology, basic
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are NOT to be considered expressly set forth; only those application program
interfaces and data structures disclosed with particularity are included in
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ifndef::ratified_core_spec[]
This document contains extensions which are not ratified by Khronos, and as
such is not a ratified Specification, though it contains text from (and is a
superset of) the ratified Vulkan Specification. The ratified versions of the
Vulkan Specification can be found at
https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2/html/vkspec.html (core
only) and
https://www.khronos.org/registry/vulkan/specs/1.2-khr-extensions/html/vkspec.html
(core with KHR extensions).
endif::ratified_core_spec[]

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