Re: Octave and CUDA/GPGPU programming

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Sep-2008, isaacgerg wrote:

| They are indeed free.

This page: http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html, says "CUDA
tools are provided free of charge" but that is not the same as what I
meant by "free software".

Looking at the detailed license terms, I see

  Source Code: Developer shall have the right to modify and create
  derivative works with the Source Code.  [...]

and that's encouraging, but then I also see:

  Object Code: Developer agrees not to disassemble, decompile or reverse
  engineer the Object Code versions of any of the Materials.  Developer
  acknowledges that certain of the Materials provided in Object Code
  version may contain third party components that may be subject to
  restrictions, and expressly agrees not to attempt to modify or
  distribute such Materials without first receiving consent from NVIDIA.

so are there binary-only blobs that are required and that are not
free (as in speech) software?

jwe