In February of this year, Andrzej Janik, the developer of the ZLUDA project, open-sourced AMD’s sponsored CUDA implementation on GitHub. This allowed CUDA applications to run on AMD graphics cards without modification. While AMD ceased funding for the project, it allowed the developer to publicly release the source code. However, six months after going open-source, AMD’s legal team revoked the decision, and the project was subsequently taken down from GitHub. Andrzej Janik confirmed that the project did not receive any legal threats from NVIDIA but was removed at the request of AMD’s legal department. He also stated that he has completed an implementation of NVIDIA GameWorks that runs on AMD GPUs, but the code will never be open-sourced.
