Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against CUDA library

2009-12-07 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Sylvain Beucler wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:46:13PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: >> Sylvain Beucler writes: >> >> Would a FLOSS project using CUDA be accepted on savannah.nongnu.org? >> > >> > Independently of GPL compatibility, Savannah only accepts projects

Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against proprietary libraries

2009-12-07 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 11:00:29AM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: > > >Free software users mustn't be enticed to use proprietary software. > >If there are multiple backends, the best (or equal-best) backend must > >rely on free software. If CUDA is a suboptimal (or equal

Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against CUDA library

2009-12-07 Thread Miles Bader
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Sylvain Beucler wrote: >> What if CUDA isn't a dependency per-se, but rather one of several >> backends? > > Free software users mustn't be enticed to use proprietary software. > If there are multiple backends, the best (or equal-best) backend must > rely on free so

Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against CUDA library

2009-12-07 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Sylvain Beucler wrote: Free software users mustn't be enticed to use proprietary software. If there are multiple backends, the best (or equal-best) backend must rely on free software. If CUDA is a suboptimal (or equal-best) backend, that's ok. If CUDA is a better backend than a free software al

Re: [Savannah-users] Re: Hosting of FLOSS project that links against CUDA library

2009-12-07 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:46:13PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Sylvain Beucler writes: > >> Would a FLOSS project using CUDA be accepted on savannah.nongnu.org? > > > > Independently of GPL compatibility, Savannah only accepts projects > > that work without proprietary dependencies. > > > > Conseq