Re: GPU Engine for Octave

[jaideep singh]

So, if octave users want to use the immense parallel computing capabilities of the GPUs, is there any solution for the license conflict, how do we go about it?

-js

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Shai Ayal <address@hidden> wrote:

2009/12/8 John W. Eaton <address@hidden>:

> On  8-Dec-2009, S ren Hauberg wrote:
>
> | Is this something you are sharing with the community? I mean, where do I
> | find the code?
>
> Also, is the CUDA toolkit you are referring to free software
> distributed under terms that are compatible with the GPL?  If not,
> then the license of Octave doesn't allow you to distribute copies of
> Octave or .oct files that are linked with it.

To my non-lawyer eyes it seems that the license:
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/2_3/toolkit/docs/cudatoolkit_eula.txt
is not GPL compatible (e.g. clause 2.1.4 prohibits reverse engineering)

Shai