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In the license: > “Other NVDLA Rights” includes copyright, design right (whether registered or unregistered), semiconductor topography (mask work) rights, and
by lights0123 6y ago
In the license:
> “Other NVDLA Rights” includes copyright, design right (whether registered or unregistered), semiconductor topography (mask work) rights, and database rights to the NVDLA Specification and any Derivative Work. For the avoidance of doubt, Other NVDLA Rights does not include patents or trademarks.
> Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, NVIDIA and each Contributor hereby grant to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license under the Other NVDLA Rights to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the NVDLA Specification and such Derivative Works, and to commercially exploit any mask works included in the NVDLA Specification or such Derivative Works
Why would they grant you permissions to "semiconductor topography" rights?
- zokier 6y agoBecause of this I imagine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Chip_Protection_Act_of_1984 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_Chip_Protection_...
- lights0123 6y agoRight, but why would Nvidia want to give you the rights to their silicon designs?