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AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, it does say that Nvidia does not allow a translation layer like this.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nvidia may be using an EULA to try and make people not use a translation layer, but if the EULA doesn't apply or the consequences of breaking it don't prevent you continuing then what Nvidia wants means diddly.

I don't use CUDA or Nvidia so I don't know but Google release Android Studio and have an EULA saying you can't do bla bla bla. But Android Studio is open source so if I don't use their binary and compile it myself then (as far as I know) their EULA doesn't apply (only the open source license used before they added an EULA on top of it for distribution).

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

An EULA is an End User License Agreement. It has no legal authority over a customer who does not even use an nvidia product, let alone a company.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Perhaps not even when you use an Nvidia product like if I buy Nvidia hardware but don't use their software (i.e. use open source drivers instead). I don't know enough about CUDA to say if you're not using Nvidia software (normally, the topic discusses a reverse-engineered one which doesn't infringe on Nvidia's copyright of their software).