Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications.
On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 13:09 +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:35:24PM +0000, Lumin wrote:
> > (3) CUDA Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN)[4] is NVIDIA's
> > **PROPRIETARY**,
> > stacked on CUDA, and requires NVIDIA GPU exclusively.
>
> so what? Debian runs on non-free CPUs too, how is this any different?
AIUI there is a pile of non-free libraries/tools on the host side too,
which is somewhat akin to a non-free device driver.
Presumably someone could (and for all I know is) build a Nouveau style
replacement that set of host libraries...
Ian.
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