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Is there a legal question here as CUDA is proprietary API?

That is an interesting question, but I don't think so, because that repo shouldn't contain anything related to the CUDA binaries.

(Do NOT take my word for it, I have no idea about what I am talking about)

Obviously im thinking of this type of legal issue. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/09/intel_sends_arm_a_s... . Emulation is simply an implementation of API.

Also Oracle vs Google in their legal battle about the use of Java APIs in Android. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google...

Google won out over Oracle in the end but it took a long time — from 2012 until 2016; four years of court cases — with some courts finding that API structures were copyrightable and others found that they were not, or that reimplementation was fair use. I guess we now have a precedent thanks to this but it could still be an issue? IANAL so I don’t know.

Oracle may not have been able to use SQL anymore if the ruling had gone in their favor.

Oracle haters keep bringing this up, it doesn't make any sense.

SQL is an international standard, that one needs to pay for, it isn't available for free.

Oracle already pays for SQL certifications, unlike Google does for Java.

Could you elaborate???

Somebody speculated that the lawsuit was used by Oracle to establish firm boundaries in what can be considered a copyright infringement, with the intent to implement Amazon/GCE APIs for drop-in compatibility for their cloud offering. So they tried all kinds of ridiculous stuff to see what works/what doesn't in order to properly cover their backs while "stealing" other APIs.

Given that Google helped sink Sun by ripping them off, and Sun wasn't in the position to pay for lawyers, to apply the same medicine that they did to Microsoft....

James Gosling interview, at 57:42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYw3X4RZv6Y

"unwilling to help us pays the bills", so nice for the Do No Evil company.

Oracle does pay for their ANSI/ISO SQL certifications.

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