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I never get past the license, not sure what you can even use this for without breaking 2.7? Any ideas?

2.6 You may not use the Software in any manner that would cause it to become subject to an open source software license; subject to the terms in the “Components Under Other Licenses” section below.

2.7 You may not use the Software for the purpose of developing competing products or technologies or assist a third party in such activities.

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Not that I am a fan of those licences, but the difference between building a libary and a product using that libary is quite clear?

So building a similar libary would be forbidden with this. But making a unrelated scientific simulation is not.

> the difference between building a libary and a product using that libary is quite clear?

Where do you see that differentiation? For me, it is not even clear whether the restriction of building competing products only refers to this specific library or to every single product by NVIDIA.

Well, building a framework for high computing sounds like a competing product. Using a high computing framework to build a simulation for science or a game like using it. There will be grey area, but not so grey, that no product can be build with it.

We're not far from "You may not use this software if NVidia feels like it".

How would 2.7 work if you developed something that didn't compete with NVDA at the time but they later then released a similar product/service?

One of many reasons why any form of non-competes are dumb.

> 2.7 You may not use the Software for the purpose of developing competing products or technologies or assist a third party in such activities.

Good luck enforcing that.

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