NVIDIA Open-Sources Its CUDA Compiler

[NomadDemon]

ok.. cuda, physix.. but radeon driver still suck in 3d, suck badly even quake live... is unplayable

[allquixotic]

Unless Nvidia's license allows anyone who obtains a copy of the source to at least share the sources verbatim with other people who didn't fill out the form, this can hardly be called open-source, much less free software. Usually I complain that a lot of software touted as "open source" on this site isn't free software, but in this case, not even the "open source" camp will be very happy.

The CUDA compiler is no more open source than the Windows Research Kernel.

[droidhacker]

If the source code is only available under NDA, it is called CLOSED source.

[Veerappan]

If the source code is only available under NDA, it is called CLOSED source.

Yeah, I was hoping that Nvidia had seen the light, but it was probably just a train coming through the tunnel.