On: Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs

[selimnairb]

Patented API? I thought Google v. Oracle settled this? Making an implementation of an API spec is fair use, is it not?

[fngjdflmdflg → selimnairb]

My understanding is that Google v. Oracle only applies to copyright.

[nl → fngjdflmdflg]

Well you can't patent an API so....

[fngjdflmdflg → nl]

You can patent the implementation. You can't patent the API name DecodeH265Video() but you can still sue someone for implementing that function correctly.

[anticensor → fngjdflmdflg]

If there is only one way to solve a problem, there is nothing to invent, just discover, and discoveries are decidedly not patentable.

[fngjdflmdflg → anticensor]

>If there is only one way to solve a problem

h.265 is one way, av1 is another way.