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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by adev_ on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:19PM (#23183290)
> Most other legal precedent was that it was fine to clone an API.

CUDA is more than an API. It is a technology under copyright and very likely patented too. Even the API itself contains multiple reference to "CUDA" in function calls and variable name.

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Re:Nvidia CEO Introduces Nvidia Ampere Architecture, Nvidia ... by monocasa on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:30PM (#23184229)
None of that protects it from being cloned under previous 9th circuit precedent except maybe patents, but I'm not aware of any patents that'd protect another against CUDA implementation.
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