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Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs by selimnairb on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:28PM (#40972385)
Patented API? I thought Google v. Oracle settled this? Making an implementation of an API spec is fair use, is it not?
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Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs by fngjdflmdflg on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:18PM (#40972915)
My understanding is that Google v. Oracle only applies to copyright.
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Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs by nl on Monday July 15, 2024 @11:18PM (#40973424)
Well you can't patent an API so....
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Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs by fngjdflmdflg on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:22AM (#40973833)
You can patent the implementation. You can't patent the API name DecodeH265Video() but you can still sue someone for implementing that function correctly.
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Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs by anticensor on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @03:40PM (#40979595)
If there is only one way to solve a problem, there is nothing to invent, just discover, and discoveries are decidedly not patentable.
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Re:Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs by fngjdflmdflg on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:50AM (#40987202)
>If there is only one way to solve a problem

h.265 is one way, av1 is another way.

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