Bug#702948: nvidia-cuda-toolkit: please provide sdk samples

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: tag -1 wontfix

On 2013-03-13 10:32, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Please consider providing a package containing the CUDA SDK samples and
> making them available in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-cuda-sdk or similar, as done
> in the gtk2.0-examples and gtk-3-examples packages.

Unfortunately the SDK is not redistributable, not even in non-free:

Quoting from the SDK EULA:

  [...]
  The materials available for download to Developers may include [...]
  certain art work ("Art Assets") [...]
  [...]
  Art Assets:  Developer shall have the right to modify and create
  Derivatives of the Art Assets, but may not distribute any of the Art
  Assets or Derivatives created therefrom without NVIDIA's prior
  written consent.
  [...]

> Previously, it was possible to download the SDK samples separately from
> Nvidia.  Now in version 5, the SDK samples are only available in the full
> installer.
> 
> Additionally, the SDK samples will probably need patching before they will
> compile on a Debian system.  I am willing to work on such a patch.

The only option I see is to include some "download-and-install-cuda-sdk"
script in the nvidia-cuda-toolkit package, in case someone would provide
it. Or someone could ask NVIDIA about this ... and/or debian-legal@


Andreas