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Comment by sabalaba | Hacker News Reader

It's true, here is the updated license: http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/licen....

Text:

  No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment,
  except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.

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So, once again proof that open source is the only way to go.

Open-source drivers don't even support Tesla, not to mention Volta. An EULA challenge seems to the way to go here. I'll be emailing legal for advice once I get back to work.

I think the point is less using nouveau drivers for nvidia hardware as it is we should have never accepted CUDA as a standard since the implementation isn't free. Proprietary standards leave us at the mercy of the owners.

There's no date on the page itself, and the link contains the string "March2009". Is this really a recent change?

EDIT: just tried to download a driver, and this is the page that gets displayed.

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