Hacker News Reader

Comment by tzs | Hacker News Reader

The article has been updated to clarify:

> Nvidia has banned running CUDA-based software on other hardware platforms using translation layers in its licensing terms listed online, but those warnings previously weren't included in the documentation placed on a host system during the installation process. This language has now been added to newer versions of CUDA.

View on HN

That still doesn't seem accurate. I have CUDA 11.6 on my machine from Dec 2021, just checked the EULA included there, and it did have the mentioned clause there too.

It was in fact added to the EULA.txt file in 11.6. The header says it was updated October 8, 2021.

    %  diff EULA.txt-11.5 EULA.txt-11.6 |grep -2 trans
    >   8. You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble
    >     any portion of the output generated using SDK elements for
    >     the purpose of translating such output artifacts to target
    >     a non-NVIDIA platform.

That said, I believe 11.6 was released in January, 2022.

This clause would absolutely not fly in a French court, and IANAL but IIRC US case law does allow for reverse engineering for interoperability.

>That said, I believe 11.6 was released in January, 2022.

Ah that's right, the Dec 2021 timestamp was for 'last modified', but 'created' is Jan 2022.

How can 'created' timestamp > 'last modified' timestamp?

Last modified was probably carried over from what the file had when it was packaged into the installer, with created being the time for when I actually installed the toolkit.

Emulation via an API wrapper is neither of these though.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com