Re: Concerns to software freedom when packaging deep-learning based appications.
On Thu, 2018-07-12 at 19:03 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 02:16:01PM +0100, Ian Campbell 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.
>
> So like the microcode? ;)
Not really, this is literal host libFOO.so type stuff, completely
normal libraries and tools like a "compiler". So "glibc" and "gcc" is
probably the right analogy.
There might well be firmware blobs too but I wasn't talking about
those.
Ian.
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