Hi Jerome, Thank you for putting forward this issue.
I guess the maintainers have noticed this problem, as per changelog of this upload: nvidia-graphics-drivers (387.34-1) experimental; urgency=medium Anyway I'm pinging the driver maintainer. > Hi all, > > Maybe I am not asking to the right people but you may redirect me to > the appropriate list within the debian community. > > Some facts: Nvidia changed the license agreement on the 21st of > december 2017 for their driver making it illegal to use these drivers > inside a datacenter except for crypto-currency mining, unless you use > them on tesla-class hardware. > > I doubt this is legal in most countries as it was common to purchase > servers with Titan-cards and those servers can no-more be used since > the beginning of the year (even if purchased under the former EULA). > > Debian registers all licenses and the "nvidia license" is referenced > for the non-free repository. I would be interested in debian's official > point of view as the new EULA clearly looks incompatible with > open-source software. > > Thanks for your thought > -- > Jérôme Kieffer > > PS: debian science may be interested as it comes down to computing on GPU... > > This is the official statement I got from an nvidia representative: > """ > GeForce and TITAN GPUs were never designed for datacenter deployments with > the complex hardware, software, and > thermal requirements for 24x7 operation, where there are often multi-stack > racks. To clarify this, we recently added > a provision to our GeForce-specific EULA to discourage potential misuse of > our GeForce and TITAN products in > demanding, large-scale enterprise environments. > """ >
