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. """
