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by my123 1349 days ago
The NVIDIA datacenter use clause is present in the license agreement for the Windows driver, but not on the Linux one.
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Do you have a reference?

What’s the point of the infamous “No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.” clause if it only applies to Windows?

Wow, thanks!

This is fascinating and now I'm really confused. Who is using CUDA on Windows in any datacenter application?

I wonder if it's the other way around... maybe this rule was grandfathered in from a time when Microsoft feared companies offering "DirectX as a Service" or whatever. It doesn't really seem like the sort of thing Nvidia would care about, especially considering the licensing of their Unix drivers and considerable enterprise support efforts.