Earlier this year, AMD quietly stopped funding ZLUDA, an open-source CUDA translation layer project that allowed to execute programs originally compiled for Nvidia CUDA GPUs on AMD Radeon processors supported by the the ROCm software stack. But recently Nvidia banned usage of translation layers with CUDA-based software, which could potentially cause legal troubles for AMD, so the company now asked Andrzej Janik, the developer behind ZLUDA to take the code down, reports Phoronix.
"The code that was previously here has been taken down at AMD's request," the developer wrote at the project's GitHub page. "The code was released with AMD's approval through an email. AMD's legal department now says it's not legally binding, hence the rollback. Before anyone asks: I have received no legal threats or any communication from Nvidia."
