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This is the relevant change in the EULA you need to accept when downloading (installing?) the GeForce driver. The article is weirdly translated, this is apparen
by jo909 9y ago
This is the relevant change in the EULA you need to accept when downloading (installing?) the GeForce driver. The article is weirdly translated, this is apparently a global NVIDIA thing and not specific to "NVIDIA Japan".
> No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.
Edit: http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/licence.php?lang=us&type=GeForce http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/licen... and https://www.geforce.com/drivers/license/geforce https://www.geforce.com/drivers/license/geforce
- dnautics 9y agoWhat if you write your own block chain where the POW is "do a deep learning task"?
- codeisawesome 9y agoThis is the concept behind openmined.org - the “miners” are rewarded for improving the gradient (the data is anonymised).
- make3 9y agocourts aren't (yet?) ruled by machines; you'll have a hard time arguing this to an actual human being
- dnautics 9y agoAnd an actual human judge is not going to sympathize with a have your cake and eat it too EULA like nvidias especially if the competitor is offering a product that is more efficient for the consumer
- f1notformula1 9y agoI'm not a legal expert and don't understand EULAs at all. I expected a "Datacenter" to be defined at some point but I didn't see a definition in the EULA. How should one interpret this? Is a research cluster a datacenter? How about a rack of a few dozen machines I built by hand? I've been in university research groups that had both options. Somewhat maddening to have a single line in the EULA that's so open to interpretation.
- QAPereo 9y agoUndefined terms like that speak to the weakness of the EULA as an enforceable contract.
- jacquesm 9y agoWhen you're not a legal expert and you feel like you are about to maybe break a term in someone else's license agreement the right avenue is to consult your company or university legal department.
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- jo909 9y agoThey don't want commercial cloud and bare metal and "machine learning as a service" platforms to be based on GeForce cards. Such a service is either insignificant in it's size, or based in a Datacenter. I would not stress about this on my own hardware for my personal or company internal use, even if it is a full rack or more in a Datacenter. Nvidia is not going to be able to tell the difference to a rack in my basement.
- solomatov 9y agoIANAL, but in the law there's a thing which is called Contra proferentem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem Basically, it means that ambiguous terms are interpreted against the contract drafter.
- QAPereo 9y agoYou get that pretty much everywhere that used to be British common law iirc, and it’s why contracts frequently define seemingly minor and silly terms, ones which are obvious such as “the undersigned“ and all manner of the seemingly banal. In essence the contract is first and foremost agreeing on the same language, to express a commitment which ideally all parties are fully cognizant of. Edit: spelling
- Const-me 9y agoI might be wrong, but doesn't modern Windows just silently installs these from windows update, without EULA or user consent?
- j_s 9y agoIf this is just a software licensing change maybe the OSS stuff will gain momentum!