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by kkielhofner 1350 days ago
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?
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my123 1350 days ago
Yes.

Windows: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/

Linux: https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/520.56.06/l...

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kkielhofner 1349 days ago
Wow, thanks!

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

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smoldesu 1349 days ago
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.
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