There were murmurs that NVIDIA had told AMD to stop funding the project, probably under threat of a lawsuit. Is this project not in a similar position again?

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[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

History:

ZLUDA starts as a project to make CUDA work on Intel GPUs, with funding from Intel.
Intel pulls funding, author manages to get funding from AMD instead.
Development of a new version targetting AMD GPUs happens under closed doors with the informal agreement that the source code will be publicly released if AMD pulls funding.
After a couple of years, AMD pulls funding and the source code for the new version is released.
Development continues in the open for a few months, albeit at a slowed pace.
AMD goes back on their word, claims previous agreement wasn't legally binding and asks that ZLUDA source code be taken down.
Author reverts codebase to its pre-AMD state, looks for new source of funding.
ZLUDA's Third Life
Anything regarding NVIDIA involvement is pure speculation and should be treated as such.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Oh great, thanks for the run down! That clears things up 👍

It would be great I'd this got to a point where one could "just" buy any GPU without worrying about CUDA. Really amazing project.

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