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Re:Nvidia publishes 73k lines of 3D header files for Fermi t... by EMIRELADERO on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:15AM (#32409126)
DRM applies only to copyrighted works. The functional aspects of a GPU (what actually makes it work and enables you to use it) are not copyrighted, in the same way that a machine's mechanisms aren't (patents might still exist)
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Re:Nvidia publishes 73k lines of 3D header files for Fermi t... by happymellon on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @09:38AM (#32411716)
Wasn't Tivoisation about DRM preventing you from using a different Linux kernel.

I didn't think that DRM applied only to copywritten works. I don't mind being wrong, but if you could expand on what exactly was wrong and what is the actual situation as I am only saying what I understand to be the situation.

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Re:Nvidia publishes 73k lines of 3D header files for Fermi t... by EMIRELADERO on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @04:12PM (#32417758)
What I meant with DRM was "legallity of breaking it".

If a technological measure that controls access to hardware has no connection to copyright, there's no legal concern about litigation or bad precedent being set.

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