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The prohibition explicitly includes use of outputs as a prohibited method, meaning even downstream use of Databricks-generated outputs to build a competing or substitute product is prohibited.
Readers are prohibited from developing or offering any product, service, feature, functionality, or interface that substitutes for, replicates, replaces, or circumvents Databricks Services, by any of the enumerated or similar means.
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Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using an NVIDIA proprietary software development kit (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA toolkit), including their development tools and compilers.
You agree not to modify, display, adapt, translate, loan, distribute, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software.
use the Application Services in a manner that overburdens, or that threatens the integrity, performance, or availability of, the Application Services
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"develop or offer a service, product, feature, functionality, or interface that substitutes for, replicates, replaces or circumvents any Databricks Services, or portion thereof, including through reverse engineering, intermediation, or use of outputs...— Excerpt from Databricks's Databricks AI Acceptable Use Policy
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The prohibition explicitly includes use of outputs as a prohibited method, meaning even downstream use of Databricks-generated outputs to build a competing or substitute product is prohibited.
Readers are prohibited from developing or offering any product, service, feature, functionality, or interface that substitutes for, replicates, replaces, or circumvents Databricks Services, by any of the enumerated or similar means.
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