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Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

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Re: Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

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Post by Rygian »

meego wrote: post #7

Can the nouveau project make use of this without ending in legal hot water?

The nouveau project need to guarantee that anyone working on the relevant new features to hasn't had access to the Nvidia leak, to make sure the resulting implementation is a clean-room one [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Re: Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

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Post by protoman3000 »

mschuster91 wrote: post #10
meego wrote: post #7

Can the nouveau project make use of this without ending in legal hot water?

The roadblock for nouveau is that the chipset won't allow the clocks to be set to performant frequencies unless the NVIDIA-signed binary firmware blob is uploaded.

Which still can be used, no? All we need is to know the API to the firmware blob, which this leak probably shows nicely

Re: Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

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Post by jonpalmisc »

To be abundantly clear: I'd hate to have my source code leaked.

But I will admit that incidents like these or the Windows XP source leak are fascinating. I'd hope others share the same curiosity I have for getting to "peek behind the scenes" of some impressive software and engineering accomplishments.

Re: Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

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Post by Macha »

meego wrote: post #7

Can the nouveau project make use of this without ending in legal hot water?

Not a chance. Think it was either the reactos or wine project used to have processes in place to check people weren't submitting codes from the win2k leaks either.

Re: Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

westmeal wrote: post #3

Hahaha yes! Congrats to whoever did this!

Why the congratulations? Other than intellectual curiosity how is this a positive? As I understand it no other company can now get even close to matching these techniques without legal accusations of copying the code coming about.

Re: Nvidia DLSS Source Code Leaked

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Post by nilstycho »

xxs wrote: post #8
chii wrote: post #4

i hope this might offer the feature for AMD cards, or something unified so that this feature could be utilized in games without having specific hardware.

if anything - it makes it worse. The code is untouchable for any serious company or even open source. If you need references see what WinNT/XP code leaks did to Wine project.

Where can I read about what what WinNT/XP code leaks did to the Wine project?
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