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They don’t want you to repackage the book or sell parts of it. If you want to learn from it or write similar code, they aren’t going to sue you
by jtsiskin 5y ago
They don’t want you to repackage the book or sell parts of it. If you want to learn from it or write similar code, they aren’t going to sue you
- kragen 5y agoIt's reassuring that you're close personal friends with NVIDIA's current senior management team and can therefore report on their motivations, but have you considered that their plans may change in the future, or they may be replaced, due to mergers or stockholder lawsuits? Think about the Unisys LZW extortion campaign, for example, which happened after the legitimate business of Unisys had collapsed. If they really aren't going to sue you for writing similar code, they could formalize that in a way that's binding on future management by attaching a free-software license to the example code. That's what they did with the previous book in the series. Instead, they specifically changed the license for the code examples in this book to ensure that they can sue you for writing similar code in the future.
- kragen 5y agoUpdate: problem has been fixed! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103497