• tabular@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    29
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    5 months ago

    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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      5 months 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
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        5 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).