Comment on AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA
tabular@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoNvidia 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 on distribution).
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 5 weeks ago
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 5 weeks 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).