License Issue about Distributing NVIDIA's cuDNN library via Debian

[lumin]

Hi Debian Legal Team,

I intend to package[1] a proprietary deep learning
library named "cuDNN"[2], which is definitely useful
to deep learning researchers.

@lyeager kindly provided some help[3] on this but I'm
not really good at these legal terms.

Generally, to download the cudnn library, one needs
to fist register or login at nvidia's website. Next,
the user is required to click "I agree ..."[4] to continue.
Now the secured library download link is exposed to the user.[5]

Initially I don't think such a well-protected proprietary
can be distributed by Debian, untill I find this package
in Archlinux's community repo[6].

I don't know how the Arch guys achieved this but in their
PKGBUILD file (arch packaging script) there is a anonymously
downloadable link to the cudnn library[7]. What is notable
is the "redist" keyword in the URL. I can't find this "redist"
URL in nvidia's website.

I'm confused.

What makes me more confused is nvidia legal guy's word conveyed
by @lyeager [8]. Once a package is uploaded to the Archive, isn't
the distributor (legally) the Debian Organization? It's so weird
for an individual to take the role of distributor for a package
in Archive and I think it's impossible.

Anyway I'm not good at the legal field. I need help.

Thank you in advance :-)

P.S. "cuDNN", i.e. "CUDA Deep Neural Network", is a library
built upon nvidia's proprietary CUDA toolkit, which was available
in our archive for years[9].

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/862524
[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/cudnn
[3] https://github.com/CDLuminate/nvidia-cudnn/issues/1
[4] Unluckily this licence file is secured, only available after login:
http://developer2.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-
learning/cudnn/secure/v6/prod/Doc/NVIDIA_SLA%2BcuDNN_Supp_Feb2017_relea
se.pdf
[5] https://developer.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/cudnn/secure/
v6/prod/8.0_20170427/cudnn-8.0-linux-x64-v6.0-tgz
[6] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/cudnn/
[7] http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/redist/cudnn/v6.0/cudn
n-8.0-linux-x64-v6.0.tgz
[8] https://github.com/CDLuminate/nvidia-cudnn/issues/1#issuecomment-30
1827809
[9] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvidia-cuda-toolkit