Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against CUDA library

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:46:13PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Would a FLOSS project using CUDA be accepted on savannah.nongnu.org?
> >
> > Independently of GPL compatibility, Savannah only accepts projects
> > that work without proprietary dependencies.
> >
> > Consequently, as long as you use CUDA to access the GPU, your project
> > does not fit our hosting requirements.
> 
> What if CUDA isn't a dependency per-se, but rather one of several
> backends?

Free software users mustn't be enticed to use proprietary software.
If there are multiple backends, the best (or equal-best) backend must
rely on free software.  If CUDA is a suboptimal (or equal-best)
backend, that's ok. If CUDA is a better backend than a free software
alternative, that's not ok.

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Sylvain