Before the "ZLUDA" project completion, they would be facing a lawsuit for IP inf...

colordrops · 2026-02-18T16:45:19 1771433119

They would win, compatibility layers are not illegal.

bigyabai · 2026-02-18T18:21:53 1771438913

Win against who? AMD is the one that asked them to take it down: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-asks-dev...

And while compatibility layers aren't illegal, they ordinarily have to be a cleanroom design. If AMD knew that the ZLUDA dev was decompiling CUDA drivers to reverse-engineer a translation layer, then legally they would be on very thin ice.