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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.

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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.

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