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[–] hypertown@lemmy.world 60 points 8 months ago (20 children)

If translation layer can be banned with EULA how is wine not dead yet? M$ loves Linux or what?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] hypertown@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] optissima@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago

Nintendo firing all its lawyers atm because no one suggested this yet

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