Re: GNU Octave and GPU computing by Ocelot

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

2012/1/27 Michael Goffioul <address@hidden>:
> 2012/1/27 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden>:
>> Note that as long as there is no distribution, you can do whatever you
>> want. The GPL doesn't attempt to tell you what you can do with the
>> software in the privacy of your home or business. It only matters if
>> you are going to be attempting to distribute a proprietary work based
>> on Octave.
>
> Am I right that the distribution only applies to binary form? Or does
> the distribution restriction also applies to source form?

Yes, binary distribution. But there isn't any other available form for
libcuda.so, as far as I know.

2012/1/27 Riccardo Corradini <address@hidden>:
> So the unique so solution is to use the free Nvidia driver (nouveau) +
> ocelot with GNU Octave..
> Am I right?

Does this work? Is it possible to use CUDA without nvidia's non-free
CUDA runtime? Does Ocelot do this? If so, then yes, there is no
problem.

- Jordi G. H.