Oiconomia@feddit.de to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 8 months agoSomeone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegalfeddit.deimagemessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down11
arrow-up118arrow-down1imageSomeone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegalfeddit.deOiconomia@feddit.de to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square54fedilink
minus-squareGeneral_Effort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoThe EULA of the CUDA SDK bans reverse engineering output of the SDK to make translation layers (and such compatibility aids in general). That makes it more legally dangerous and/or harder for devs. It has no effect on anyone not using the SDK.
minus-squarehypertown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoHow is that Nvidia can ban reverse engineering and for example Nintendo can’t. I’m sure they would love to just say in EULA that sorry but reverse engineering Switch is prohibited therefore every emulator is illegal
The EULA of the CUDA SDK bans reverse engineering output of the SDK to make translation layers (and such compatibility aids in general).
That makes it more legally dangerous and/or harder for devs. It has no effect on anyone not using the SDK.
How is that Nvidia can ban reverse engineering and for example Nintendo can’t. I’m sure they would love to just say in EULA that sorry but reverse engineering Switch is prohibited therefore every emulator is illegal