Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most unusual demands ever

Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by NavinF on Friday March 04, 2022 @08:54AM (#30554722)

Did you leave power savings enabled? Cause that’s a recipe for disaster on Linux. My ML servers have years of uptime with “nvidia-smi -pm 0” in crontab and auto updates disabled. The latter prevents the CUDA version from getting ahead of the kernel module version.

It’s a polished turd, but at least it works which is more than I can say for nouveau

And yes you can distribute patches. Copyright only prevents you from distributing the modified version.

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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by pabs3 on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:48PM (#30561665)

This was like 15 years ago (no idea about power savings stuff), I wouldn't touch the proprietary driver any more though.

nouveau has been extremely stable for me when I used it up until last year.

Patches contain parts of the original code, so I would class them as modified versions of the original code. Also the initial modification isn't allowed either, I wasn't really referring to distribution of the patches, just creating them isn't allowed AFAIK.

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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by NavinF on Saturday March 05, 2022 @06:41PM (#30573178)

You’re talking about the EULA, not the copyright license. The EULA can certainly claim you’re not allowed to do that, but it’s also unenforceable in most places so who cares?

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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by pabs3 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @07:01PM (#30573357)

I'm talking about neither the EULA nor the copyright license, but about copyright law, which doesn't allow modifications by default. Only a EULA or other license can then allow modifications.

OTOH, even the GPL is pretty much unenforceable these days, unless you are well funded enough to afford time consuming legal cases.

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Re:Cybercriminals who breached Nvidia issue one of the most ... by NavinF on Sunday March 06, 2022 @09:12AM (#30577703)

<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Galoob_Toys,_Inc._v._N...>

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