top | item 47061033 (no title) zvr | 11 days ago Before the "ZLUDA" project completion, they would be facing a lawsuit for IP infringement, since CUDA is owned by NVIDIA. discuss order hn newest colordrops|11 days ago They would win, compatibility layers are not illegal. bigyabai|11 days ago Win against who? AMD is the one that asked them to take it down: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-asks-dev...And while compatibility layers aren't illegal, they ordinarily have to be a cleanroom design. If AMD knew that the ZLUDA dev was decompiling CUDA drivers to reverse-engineer a translation layer, then legally they would be on very thin ice.
colordrops|11 days ago They would win, compatibility layers are not illegal. bigyabai|11 days ago Win against who? AMD is the one that asked them to take it down: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-asks-dev...And while compatibility layers aren't illegal, they ordinarily have to be a cleanroom design. If AMD knew that the ZLUDA dev was decompiling CUDA drivers to reverse-engineer a translation layer, then legally they would be on very thin ice.
bigyabai|11 days ago Win against who? AMD is the one that asked them to take it down: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-asks-dev...And while compatibility layers aren't illegal, they ordinarily have to be a cleanroom design. If AMD knew that the ZLUDA dev was decompiling CUDA drivers to reverse-engineer a translation layer, then legally they would be on very thin ice.
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bigyabai|11 days ago
And while compatibility layers aren't illegal, they ordinarily have to be a cleanroom design. If AMD knew that the ZLUDA dev was decompiling CUDA drivers to reverse-engineer a translation layer, then legally they would be on very thin ice.