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Edit: I had the details of the Google v Oracle case wrong. SCOTUS found that re-implementing an API does not infringe copyright. I was remembering the first and second appellate rulings.

Also apparently this is not a re-implementation of CUDA.





You misunderstood and this is not re-implementing CUDA API.

MLX is a PyTorch-like framework.


This is exactly the kind of thing I wouldn’t opine on until like, an actual lawyer weighs in after thoroughly researching it. There are just too many shades of meaning in this kind of case law for laymen to draw actionable conclusions directly from the opinions.

Though I imagine that if Apple is doing this themselves, they likely know what they’re doing, whatever it is.


this is CUDA backend to MLX not MLX backend for CUDA!



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