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Someone needs to be reminded that anticompetitive practices are illegal (feddit.de)

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[–] General_Effort 14 points 8 months ago (1 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 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

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

[–] General_Effort 6 points 8 months ago

Well, maybe they can't. This clause would probably not hold up in a lot of countries/courts. OTOH it would in others. It might take years of litigation to figure out.

So, if you want to work on this kind of thing, better consult a lawyer first. It will have a chilling effect and that's something.

US situation: https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq