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NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement

Also known as NVIDIA Open Model License, NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement, NVIDIA-Open-Model-License, nvidia-open-model-license.

Commercial use
allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/NVIDIA-Open-Model-License

Permissions

  • Change license from the text Replacing the license of the work, or of an adaptation, with another license, or changing its terms.

    Duties

    • Use a compliant license from the text Choosing a replacement license that stays compliant with the terms of the original license.
  • Commercial use from the text Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
  • Display from the text Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
    • Include notice file from the text Carrying a named notice file of the original work into every redistributed copy and every derivative work.
    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.
  • Modified works from the text Distributing a modified version of the work that does not amount to a new, derivative work.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.
  • Patent grant from the text Granting a license under the patent claims that a contributor holds and that the contribution necessarily infringes.
  • Present from the text Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.
  • Sell copy from the text Selling copies of the work.
  • Use for model training from the text Using the licensed material to train, validate or tune an automated system that learns from data.

    Duties

    • Add statement from the text Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.

Prohibitions

  • Exempted material from the text Not permitted: Exempted material. Using material that the license carves out of its grant, such as personal data, official insignia, third-party rights or material under a separate license.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

  • Export control notice from the text Complying with the export and import laws that reach the work, and passing the notice of them on to every recipient.

Further terms

These are the things the license says about itself beyond the acts it permits, forbids and requires: when it ends, how long there is to put a breach right, which law governs it, and so on. A term that comes from the DALICC vocabulary links to its definition.

Patent license ends if you sue
Yes. Not a ban on suing: a patent claim over the work ends the patent license, or the whole license, as the text provides.
Compatible license test
additional or different license terms and conditions for Your modifications or for a Derivative Model as a whole are allowed provided Your use, reproduction and distribution of the Model otherwise complies with the conditions stated in this Agreement
Field of use restriction
use consistent with the Trustworthy AI terms
Governing law
the laws of the United States and the laws of the State of Delaware
Reciprocity scope
the Model, not a Derivative Model as a whole
Terminates on breach
Yes

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, NVIDIA provides the Model on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied, including, without limitation, any warranties or conditions of TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are solely responsible for reviewing Model documentation, including any Special-Purpose Model limitations, and determining the appropriateness of using or redistributing the Model, Derivative Models and outputs. You assume any risks associated with Your exercise of permissions under this Agreement.

Limitation of liability

Limitation of Liability. In no event and under no legal theory, whether in tort (including negligence), contract, or otherwise, unless required by applicable law (such as deliberate and grossly negligent acts) or agreed to in writing, will NVIDIA be liable to You for damages, including any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages of any character arising as a result of this Agreement or out of the use or inability to use the Model, Derivative Models or outputs (including but not limited to damages for loss of goodwill, work stoppage, computer failure or malfunction, or any and all other commercial damages or losses), even if NVIDIA has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Additional clauses

IMPORTANT NOTICE - PLEASE READ AND AGREE BEFORE USING THE NVIDIA MODELS.

Info

Target asset types
Dataset, Software
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Perpetual
Source
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license/
Legal code
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-license/
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
NVIDIA Corporation
SPDX identifier
NVIDIA-Open-Model-License (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
NVIDIA-Open-Model-License

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The changes since version 1 recorded which sentence of the text each statement rests on and named the license the record itself is published under.

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    6 changes

    • changed permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      was permission dalicc:ChangeLicense with duties [dalicc:compliantLicense]

      Manual edit The statement is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing: the text does not state it in as many words. Its duty dalicc:compliantLicense is marked as a library convention, family rule 15: Permissive records permit relicensing.

    • changed permission dalicc:useForModelTraining with duties [dalicc:addStatement]

      was permission dalicc:useForModelTraining with duties [dalicc:addStatement]

      Manual edit Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "If you distribute the Model, You must give any other recipients of the Model a copy of this Agreement and include the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file with such copies: “Licensed by NVIDIA Corporation under the NVIDIA Open Model License”;"

    • changed permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]

      was permission odrl:distribute with duties [cc:Notice, dalicc:addStatement, dalicc:includeNoticeFile]

      Manual edit Its duty cc:Notice quotes "If you distribute the Model, You must give any other recipients of the Model a copy of this Agreement and include the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file with such copies: “Licensed by NVIDIA Corporation under the NVIDIA Open Model License”;" Its duty dalicc:includeNoticeFile quotes "If you distribute the Model, You must give any other recipients of the Model a copy of this Agreement and include the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file with such copies: “Licensed by NVIDIA Corporation under the NVIDIA Open Model License”;" Its duty dalicc:addStatement quotes "If you distribute the Model, You must give any other recipients of the Model a copy of this Agreement and include the following attribution notice within a “Notice” text file with such copies: “Licensed by NVIDIA Corporation under the NVIDIA Open Model License”;"

    • changed permission odrl:present

      was permission odrl:present

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, NVIDIA hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, revocable (as stated in Section 2.1) license to publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, use, create derivative works of, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, distribute (through multiple tiers of distribution) and import the Model."

    • changed prohibition dalicc:promote

      was prohibition dalicc:promote

      Manual edit The statement now quotes the sentence of the licence text it rests on: "This Agreement does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of NVIDIA, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the Model and reproducing the content of the “Notice” text file."

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    Created from the license text on 2026-09-22 (Model licences).

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

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