Is something like this actually enforceable? That's like Microsoft saying you can't use Wine on Linux.
Wine is done on clean room reverse engineering, it doesn't use any propetriary code as reference. If they had done so, Microsoft would have grounds to sue them.
This can't enforce anything on CUDA versions below 11.6; but any functionality introduced to CUDA after 11.6 needs to be clean room reverse engineered, so this will make ZLUDA development on those versions more difficult.
Yeah, Wine is very strict about this; IIRC if you've ever even looked at the leaked Windows XP source code, you're not allowed to work on Wine.
It might not be. But the mere potential of having to litigate for years will have a chilling effect.
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Is something like this actually enforceable? That's like Microsoft saying you can't use Wine on Linux.
Wine is done on clean room reverse engineering, it doesn't use any propetriary code as reference. If they had done so, Microsoft would have grounds to sue them.
This can't enforce anything on CUDA versions below 11.6; but any functionality introduced to CUDA after 11.6 needs to be clean room reverse engineered, so this will make ZLUDA development on those versions more difficult.
Yeah, Wine is very strict about this; IIRC if you've ever even looked at the leaked Windows XP source code, you're not allowed to work on Wine.
It might not be. But the mere potential of having to litigate for years will have a chilling effect.
https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq