Skip to main content
Ctrl+K
NVIDIA DriveOS 7.0.3 Linux SDK Developer Guide - Home

NVIDIA DriveOS 7.0.3 Linux SDK Developer Guide

NVIDIA DriveOS 7.0.3 Linux SDK Developer Guide - Home

NVIDIA DriveOS 7.0.3 Linux SDK Developer Guide

Table of Contents

  • Embedded Software Components
  • DriveWorks SDK
  • Legal

Legal#

Copyright#

© 2014-2025 NVIDIA Corporation and affiliates. All rights reserved.

Automotive End User License Agreement for Development#

This automotive software license agreement for development (“Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you, whether an individual or entity (“you” or “your”) and NVIDIA Corporation (“NVIDIA”) and governs the use of the NVIDIA software, software update services and materials provided under this Agreement (“Software”).

This Agreement can be accepted only by an adult of legal age of majority in the country in which the Software is used.

If you don’t have the required age or authority to accept this Agreement, or if you don’t accept all the terms and conditions of this Agreement, do not use the Software.

You agree to use the Software only for purposes that are permitted by this Agreement and any applicable law or regulation in the relevant jurisdictions.

This Agreement covers certain Software that is not subject to fees (for example, DRIVE OS as provided for development with NVIDIA Hardware), as well as other Software that may be subject to fees under an addendum to this Agreement (as examples, DRIVE OS for production and DRIVE QKIT for ASIL-D development).

1. License Grant#

Subject to the terms of this Agreement and payment of applicable fees, NVIDIA grants you a non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable, non-sublicensable (except as expressly granted in this Agreement), license to:

1.1 Install and use copies of the Software, and modify and create derivative works of sample source code delivered in the Software, all the foregoing solely for test and development of your applications and systems that run on NVIDIA-branded SoCs, DPUs and/or dGPUs which are compatible with the Software (“Hardware”);

1.2 Access and use OTA software update services to install software in your systems that run on NVIDIA Hardware. The following applies to the software update services:

  1. You are responsible for following the software update services instructions provided, including the safety instructions;

(b) It is your choice when and how to update NVIDIA and non-NVIDIA software except as otherwise stated in this Agreement. As part of the process of selecting systems to update using the software update services, NVIDIA will collect information as described in this Agreement to identify systems that run on NVIDIA Hardware;

  1. You are responsible for backing up your applications, settings and data in the systems for use after the install;

(d) You are responsible for testing all installs, for NVIDIA and non-NVIDIA software, to maintain the desired software and functionality in your systems; and

(e) Software update services may remove or disable the use of other software that was present in the system. After completing an install, review the software in the system and determine if other installs are appropriate. It is your sole responsibility to coordinate all installs, for NVIDIA and non-NVIDIA software, to maintain the desired software running in your systems; and

1.3 Demonstrate the Software in binary format to third parties, provided that you obtain NVIDIA’s written approval (email approval being sufficient), which is provided on a case-by-case basis at NVIDIA’s discretion. Approval to demonstrate under this Agreement does not constitute a license to distribute the Software. To request approval to demonstrate the Software, send an email request to NV-Auto-Request@nvidia.com.

2. Limitations#

Your license to use the Software is restricted as follows:

2.1 The Software licensed under this Agreement is not for use in production products or services, unless you have a separate agreement with NVIDIA for this purpose.

2.2 The Software, including modifications and derivative works of the Software, may be executed on any computing system with or without NVIDIA Hardware. However, the NVIDIA proprietary software (such as drivers and the DRIVE OS runtime) must only be run on systems with NVIDIA Hardware.

2.3 You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the Software components provided in binary form, nor attempt in any other manner to obtain source code of the Software.

2.4 You may not change or remove copyright or other proprietary notices in the Software.

2.5 Except as expressly granted in this Agreement, you may not copy, sell, rent, sublicense, transfer, demonstrate (unless you have NVIDIA’s written approval as described in Section 1), distribute, modify or create derivative works of the Software, or make its functionality available to others.

2.6 You may not bypass, disable or circumvent any technical limitation, encryption, security, digital rights management or authentication mechanism in the Software.

2.7 You may not use the Software in any manner that would cause it to become subject to an open source software license; subject to the terms in the “Components Under Other Licenses” section below.

2.8 You are permitted to use software in test vehicles which must be operated by you, for evaluation and test drives only. However, unless you have an explicit warranty from NVIDIA confirming compliance with automotive safety standards, you acknowledge that the Software provided under this Agreement is not designed or tested by NVIDIA for use in any system or application where the use or failure of such system or application developed or deployed with Software could result in injury, death or catastrophic damage (each, a “Mission Critical Application”). Examples of Mission Critical Applications include use in avionics, navigation, autonomous vehicle applications, AI solutions for automotive products, military, medical, life support or other mission-critical or life-critical applications. NVIDIA will not be liable to you or any third party, in whole or in part, for any claims or damages arising from these uses. You are solely responsible for ensuring that systems and applications developed with the Software include sufficient safety and redundancy features and comply with all applicable legal and regulatory standards and requirements.

2.9 You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless NVIDIA and its affiliates, and their respective employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, fines, restitutions and expenses (including but not limited to attorney’s fees and costs incident to establishing the right of indemnification) arising out of use of the Software outside of the scope of this Agreement or not in compliance with its terms.

2.10 You may not misuse, disrupt or exploit the software update services or NVIDIA servers (when used) for any unauthorized use, or try to access areas not intended for users, or upload to NVIDIA servers any malware (such as viruses, drop dead device, worm, trojan horse, trap, back door or other software routine of such nature), or use NVIDIA servers for other purposes such as any form of excessive automated bulk activity, or to relay any other form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation.

2.11 Your employees, affiliates, or contractors who access the Software’s source code are not permitted to use any know-how, techniques or algorithms obtained from their use of the Software for any purpose outside of this Agreement.

2.12 You must not use the Software to compete against NVIDIA except with NVIDIA’s approval.

2.13 You may not indicate that a product or service developed with the Software is sponsored or endorsed by NVIDIA.

2.14 You may not replace any NVIDIA software components in the Software that are governed by this Agreement with other software that implements NVIDIA APIs.

2.15 You may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using Software elements for the purpose of translating such output artifacts to target non-NVIDIA Hardware.

3. Authorized Users#

You may allow employees and contractors of your entity or of your subsidiary(ies) to access and use the Software from your secure network to perform the work authorized by this Agreement on your behalf. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event may any Software under this Agreement be accessed by NVIDIA competitors, or used for any engagement, including but not limited to services or product development (hardware or software) for the benefit of NVIDIA competitors. For the purposes of this Agreement, NVIDIA competitors mean any entity that develops, manufactures, produces, sells, distributes or licenses application processors, computers-on-chips, systems-on-chips, CPUs, DSPs, DPU or GPU technology. If you are an academic institution, you may allow users enrolled or employed by the academic institution to access and use the Software as authorized by this Agreement from your secure network. You are responsible for the compliance with the terms of this Agreement by your authorized users. Any act or omission that if committed by you would constitute a breach of this Agreement will be deemed to constitute a breach of this Agreement if committed by your authorized users. Without limiting the foregoing, if you become aware that your authorized users did not follow the terms of this Agreement, you agree to take reasonable steps to resolve the non-compliance and prevent new occurrences.

4. Trustworthy AI#

Technology can have a profound impact on people and the world, and NVIDIA is committed to enabling trust and transparency in AI development. NVIDIA encourages you to adopt principles of AI ethics and trustworthiness to guide your business decisions by doing the following:

4.1 Permitted Use#

Ensure the product or service you develop, use, offer as a service or distribute meets the legal and ethical requirements of the relevant industry or use case and that you have taken reasonable measures to address bias and inform users of the limitations of the product or service.

4.2 Development Practices#

Ensure that in developing your product or service, you adopt adequate measures to mitigate the risk of harming more vulnerable groups, especially those that have been historically disadvantaged or are at risk of exclusion.

4.3 Transparency#

Communicate information to stakeholders about the capabilities and limitations of your product or service, including transparency about the fact that stakeholders are dealing with an AI system.

4.4 Distributor or Reseller Duty#

If you are a distributor or reseller, you will not sell to anyone who you know or believe will use your products or services in violation of these NVIDIA AI ethics requirements or for an improper purpose.

4.5 Prohibited Uses#

NVIDIA expressly prohibits the use of NVIDIA AI products or services (a) for surveillance in unauthorized private places, (b) for real-time remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible areas, (c) for collecting or processing biometric information without the consent of the subject, (d) to conduct activities that infringe on or violate the rights of others, (e) to violate any applicable law or regulation including, but not limited to, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and China’s rules and regulations applicable to generative artificial intelligence services and deep synthesis services, (f) to engage in, promote, incite or facilitate the unanticipated or unwelcome harassment, abuse, threatening or bullying of individuals or groups of individuals or intentionally mislead or deceive others, (g) to engage in the unauthorized or unlicensed practice of any profession, (h) to engage in, promote, incite, facilitate or assist in the planning or development of activities or provide products or services that present a risk of death or bodily harm to individuals.

5. Confidentiality and Source Code Protections#

5.1 Confidentiality#

You agree that you will not use, nor authorize others to use, NVIDIA Confidential Information, except as necessary for the performance of this Agreement, and that you will not disclose NVIDIA Confidential Information to any third party, except to permitted users under this Agreement that have a need to know such Confidential Information for the purpose of this Agreement, provided that each such recipient is subject to a written agreement that includes confidentiality obligations consistent with these terms. You will protect the NVIDIA Confidential Information with at least the same degree of care that you use to protect your own similar confidential and proprietary information, but no less than a reasonable degree of care. “Confidential Information” of NVIDIA means the (i) the terms of this Agreement and any exhibits or amendments to this Agreement, and (ii) Confidential Source Code known issues and limitations disclosed with the Software, and any results of benchmarking, competitive analysis, regression or performance data relating to the Software.

5.2 Confidential Source Code Protections#

Confidential Software is any proprietary Software provided in source code format excluding header files and sample source code (“Confidential Source Code”). You will take adequate measures to protect the security and confidentiality of the Confidential Source Code by performing the following:

(a) Copying. If requested by NVIDIA (email being sufficient), you will obtain all copies of the Confidential Source Code directly from the NVIDIA Partner’s Portal, access to be provided, via registered and authenticated login.

(b) Access. You will grant access to the Confidential Source Code only to authorized users working from your secure network and will maintain a list of such authorized individuals to be managed by a project lead, and provided that each authorized individual has a “need to know” basis for accessing the Confidential Source Code. Relevant individuals will be issued login credentials for access to the Confidential Source Code. If any individual having access to the Confidential Source Code is reassigned or terminates employment with you, you will remind the person of his/her confidentiality obligations, and you will promptly take steps to recover and delete copies of the Confidential Source Code from said individual. You will use commercially reasonable efforts to inform NVIDIA so that access to NVIDIA Partner’s Portal is appropriately deactivated, where applicable. The list of individuals will be provided to NVIDIA upon request.

6. Pre-Release Versions#

Software versions or specific features identified as alpha, beta, preview, early access or otherwise as pre-release may not be fully functional, may contain errors or design flaws, and may have reduced or different security, privacy, availability and reliability standards relative to commercial versions of NVIDIA offerings. You may use pre-release Software at your own risk, understanding that such versions are not intended for use in production or business-critical systems. As with any software or service in pre-release, it is highly recommended that you maintain full data backups for all your software and data. NVIDIA may choose not to make available a commercial version of any pre-release Software or service. NVIDIA may also choose to abandon development and terminate the availability of pre-release Software or service at any time without liability.

7. Updates#

NVIDIA may, at its option, make available patches, workarounds or other updates to the Software. Unless the updates are provided with their separate governing terms, they are deemed part of the Software licensed to you as provided in this Agreement. You agree to migrate to another Software version in a reasonable amount of time if NVIDIA notifies you in writing to update. For Software subject to fees (under an addendum to this Agreement), NVIDIA will only provide updates under a separate agreement executed by the parties.

With respect to software update services, NVIDIA may at any time change, discontinue, or deprecate any part, or all, of the services, or change or remove features or functionality of the services, and your continued use of the services is deemed acceptance of such changes. Additionally, the services which use NVIDIA servers may be temporarily unavailable or slow including (without limitation) for reasons outside of NVIDIA’s reasonable control or when NVIDIA is performing maintenance or upgrades.

8. Components Under Other Licenses#

8.1 Component Licenses#

The Software may include or be distributed with components provided with separate legal notices or terms that accompany the components, such as open source software licenses and other license (“Separate Components”). The components are subject to the applicable other licenses, including any proprietary notices, disclaimers, requirements and extended use rights; except that this Agreement will prevail regarding the use of third-party open source software, unless a third-party open source software license requires its license terms to prevail. Open source software license means any software, data or documentation subject to any license identified as an open source license by the Open Source Initiative (http://opensource.org), Free Software Foundation (http://www.fsf.org) or other similar open source organization or listed by the Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) Workgroup under the Linux Foundation (http://www.spdx.org).

8.2 No License Provided#

You acknowledge and agree that it is your sole responsibility to obtain any additional third-party licenses required to make, have made, use, have used, sell, import, and offer for sale your products or services that include or incorporate any Separate Components, including, without limitation, audio and/or video encoders and decoders and implementations of technical standards. NVIDIA does not grant to you under this Agreement any necessary patent or other rights, including standard essential patent rights, with respect to any Separate Components.

8.3 QNX Licensing#

You acknowledge and agree that it is your sole responsibility to obtain all necessary Blackberry QNX licenses for QNX software and materials to the extent included in the Software delivered, including as applicable the QNX Software Development Platform (SDP) license and QNX OS for Safety (QOS) Project license. Notwithstanding contrary terms in Section 1 above, you may not copy QNX software without the necessary licenses.

9. Termination#

NVIDIA may at any time with advance written notice terminate this Agreement (i) if you use of the Software in breach of the terms of the Agreement subject to the cure period stated in this section, (ii) if you commence or participate in any legal proceeding against NVIDIA with respect to the Software or derivative works of sample source code immediately upon notice, or (iii) if, in NVIDIA’s sole discretion, the continued use of the Software is no longer commercially viable or creates liabilities for NVIDIA immediately upon notice. You may terminate at any time this Agreement if NVIDIA does not timely cure a material breach of this Agreement subject to the cure period stated in this section. If the termination basis is breach and the breach is curable, the non-breaching party will give the other party thirty (30) days from the date of notification to cure the breach, except that the cure period is five (5) days if the breach is of a payment obligation and there is no cure period if the breach is of confidentiality obligations or NVIDIA’s intellectual property rights. Upon any termination, you must stop using and destroy all copies of the Software. Upon written request, you will certify in writing that you have complied with your commitments under this section. All provisions will survive termination, except for the licenses granted to you.

10. Ownership#

10.1 NVIDIA Ownership#

The Software, including all intellectual property rights, is and will remain the sole and exclusive property of NVIDIA or its licensors. Except as expressly granted in this Agreement, (i) NVIDIA reserves all rights, interests and remedies in connection with the Software and (ii) no other license or right is granted to you by implication, estoppel or otherwise. NVIDIA’s licensors are intended third party beneficiaries with the rights to enforce this Agreement with respect to their intellectual property rights. By accepting this Agreement, you agree that NVIDIA may exchange information with licensors with respect to your use of third party software and materials delivered by NVIDIA.

10.2 Your Ownership#

Subject to the rights of NVIDIA and its suppliers in the Software, you hold all rights, title and interest in and to your services, applications and derivative works of samples or examples you develop as permitted in this Agreement including their respective intellectual property rights.

10.3 Non-Assert#

You agree that you will not, and will not assist or enable any other party to, assert or threaten to assert any intellectual property rights against NVIDIA or its affiliates with respect to new software samples or examples that NVIDIA or its affiliates may develop and make available in the future.

11. Feedback#

You may, but are not obligated to, provide suggestions, requests, fixes, modifications, enhancements or other feedback regarding or in connection with your use of the Software (collectively, “Feedback”). Feedback, even if designated as confidential by you, will not create any confidentiality obligation for NVIDIA or its affiliates. If you provide Feedback, you hereby grant NVIDIA, its affiliates and its designees a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up and transferable license, under your intellectual property rights, to publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, use, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, distribute (through multiple tiers of distribution), import, create derivative works of and otherwise commercialize and exploit the Feedback at NVIDIA’s discretion. You will not give Feedback (i) that you have reason to believe is subject to any restriction that impairs the exercise of the grant stated in this section, such as third-party intellectual property rights or (ii) subject to license terms which seek to require any product incorporating or developed using such Feedback, or other intellectual property of NVIDIA or its affiliates, to be licensed to or otherwise shared with any third party.

12. Data Collection#

You hereby acknowledge that the Software may access and collect data in order to: (a) properly configure and optimize systems in which the Software is installed for use with the Software; (b) deliver content or service through the Software; and (c) improve NVIDIA products and services. Information collected by the Software may include: (i) ethernet MAC address, (ii) hardware serial number(s) and (ii) update-related information such as status of the update and whether the system has successfully been updated.

NVIDIA may require certain personal information including, but not limited to, company name, company email domain(s), and your email address, in order to deliver Software to you.

You should review the NVIDIA Privacy Policy, located at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/about-nvidia/privacy-policy/, which explains NVIDIA’s policy for collecting and using data, as well as visit the NVIDIA Privacy Center, located at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/privacy-center/, to manage your consent and privacy preferences.

13. Disclaimer of Warranties#

THE SOFTWARE AND ANY OUTPUT OF THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY NVIDIA AS-IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NVIDIA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, RELATING TO OR ARISING UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF TITLE, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, USAGE OF TRADE AND COURSE OF DEALING. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NVIDIA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE OR OUTPUT WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; THAT ANY DEFECTS OR ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED; THAT ANY CERTAIN CONTENT WILL BE AVAILABLE; OR THAT THE SOFTWARE OR OUTPUT IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. NO INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY NVIDIA WILL IN ANY WAY INCREASE THE SCOPE OF ANY WARRANTY EXPRESSLY PROVIDED IN THIS AGREEMENT. NVIDIA does not warrant or assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of any third-party information, text, graphics or links contained in the Software.

14. Limitations of Liability#

14.1 DISCLAIMERS#

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL NVIDIA BE LIABLE FOR ANY (I) INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR (II) DAMAGES FOR THE (A) COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR (B) LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUES, USE, DATA OR GOODWILL ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED ON BREACH OF CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF NVIDIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND EVEN IF A PARTY’S REMEDIES FAIL THEIR ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

14.2 DAMAGES CAP#

ADDITIONALLY, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, NVIDIA’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ANY AND ALL LIABILITIES, OBLIGATIONS OR CLAIMS ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT EXCEED FIVE U.S. DOLLARS (US$5).

15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction#

This Agreement will be governed in all respects by the laws of the United States and the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to conflict of laws principles or the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. The state and federal courts residing in Santa Clara County, California will have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute or claim arising out of or related to this Agreement, and the parties irrevocably consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts; except that either party may apply for injunctive remedies or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief in any jurisdiction.

16. General#

16.1 No Assignment#

NVIDIA may assign, delegate or transfer its rights or obligations under this Agreement by any means or operation of law. You may not, without NVIDIA’s prior written consent, assign, delegate or transfer any of your rights or obligations under this Agreement by any means or operation of law, and any attempt to do so is null and void.

16.2 Audit#

During the term of this Agreement and for three (3) years afterward, you will maintain complete and accurate information regarding your activities under this Agreement and NVIDIA or its authorized independent auditor will have the right to access and audit all reasonably necessary information to validate and confirm your information and compliance with this Agreement. Any audit will be conducted during regular business hours and in a manner that minimizes interference with your normal business activities. If an audit reveals an underpayment to NVIDIA, you will, within ten (10) days of NVIDIA’s written notice, pay NVIDIA the full amount of the underpayment, and interest calculated at the lower of 1.5% per month or the highest rate permissible by law. If the underpaid amount exceeds five percent (5%) of the amounts payable to NVIDIA during the period audited or the audit reveals material non-compliance with this Agreement, then without limiting any other rights which NVIDIA may have, you will also reimburse NVIDIA for the reasonable cost of the audit.

16.3 No Waiver#

No waiver of any term of the Agreement will be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term, and NVIDIA’s failure to assert any right or provision under the Agreement will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

16.4 Trade Compliance#

You agree to comply with all applicable export, import, trade and economic sanctions laws and regulations, including U.S. Export Administration Regulations and Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations. You confirm that you will not export or reexport any products or technology, directly or indirectly, without first obtaining any required license or other approval from appropriate authorities, (i) to any countries that are subject to any U.S. or local export restrictions (currently including, but not necessarily limited to, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, the Region of Crimea, Donetsk People’s Republic Region and Luhansk People’s Republic Region); (ii) to any end user who you know or have reason to know will utilize them in the design, development or production of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, missiles, rocket systems, unmanned air vehicles, or any weapons of mass destruction; (iii) to any end-user who has been prohibited from participating in the U.S. or local export transactions by any governing authority; or (iv) to any known military or military-intelligence end-user or for any known military or military-intelligence end-use in accordance with U.S. trade compliance laws and regulations.

16.5 Government Rights#

The Software, documentation and technology (“Protected Items”) are “Commercial products” as this term is defined at 48 C.F.R. 2.101, consisting of “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer software documentation” as such terms are used in, respectively, 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202 & 252.227-7014(a)(1). Before any Protected Items are supplied to the U.S. Government, you will (i) inform the U.S. Government in writing that the Protected Items are and must be treated as commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation developed at private expense; (ii) inform the U.S. Government that the Protected Items are provided subject to the terms of the Agreement; and (iii) mark the Protected Items as commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation developed at private expense. In no event will you permit the U.S. Government to acquire rights in Protected Items beyond those specified in 48 C.F.R. 52.227-19(b)(1)-(2) or 252.227-7013(c) except as expressly approved by NVIDIA in writing.

16.6 Notices#

Please direct your legal notices or other correspondence to NVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California 95051, United States of America, Attention: Legal Department, with a copy emailed to legalnotices@nvidia.com. If NVIDIA needs to contact you about the Software, you consent to receive the notices by email and agree that such notices will satisfy any legal communication requirements.

16.7 Force Majeure#

Except for payment of fees or taxes, neither party will be liable during any period where an event or circumstance prevents or delays that party from performing its obligations under this Agreement and that event or circumstance: (i) is not within the reasonable control of that party and is not the result of that party’s negligence, and (ii) cannot be overcome or avoided by that party using reasonably diligent efforts.

16.8 Severability and Amendment#

If a court of competent jurisdiction rules that a provision of this Agreement is unenforceable, that provision will be deemed modified to the extent necessary to make it enforceable and the remainder of this Agreement will continue in full force and effect. Any amendment to this Agreement must be in writing and signed by authorized representatives of both parties.

16.9 Independent Contractors#

The parties are independent contractors, and this Agreement does not create a joint venture, partnership, agency or other form of business association between the parties. Neither party will have the power to bind the other party or incur any obligation on its behalf without the other party’s prior written consent.

16.10 Construction#

The headings in the Agreement are included solely for convenience and are not intended to affect the meaning or interpretation of the Agreement. As required by the context of the Agreement, the singular of a term includes the plural and vice versa.

16.11 Entire Agreement#

Regarding the subject matter of this Agreement, the parties agree that (i) this Agreement constitutes the entire and exclusive agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous communications and (ii) any additional or different terms or conditions, whether contained in purchase orders, order acknowledgments, invoices or otherwise, will not be binding and are null and void.

16.12 Licensing Questions#

For questions about this Agreement or the Software, including price information, please contact NV-Auto-Request@nvidia.com.

(rev. January 18, 2024)

previous

Upgrades and Migration

next

Open Source and Third-Party Licenses

On this page
  • Copyright
  • Automotive End User License Agreement for Development
    • 1. License Grant
    • 2. Limitations
    • 3. Authorized Users
    • 4. Trustworthy AI
      • 4.1 Permitted Use
      • 4.2 Development Practices
      • 4.3 Transparency
      • 4.4 Distributor or Reseller Duty
      • 4.5 Prohibited Uses
    • 5. Confidentiality and Source Code Protections
      • 5.1 Confidentiality
      • 5.2 Confidential Source Code Protections
    • 6. Pre-Release Versions
    • 7. Updates
    • 8. Components Under Other Licenses
      • 8.1 Component Licenses
      • 8.2 No License Provided
      • 8.3 QNX Licensing
    • 9. Termination
    • 10. Ownership
      • 10.1 NVIDIA Ownership
      • 10.2 Your Ownership
      • 10.3 Non-Assert
    • 11. Feedback
    • 12. Data Collection
    • 13. Disclaimer of Warranties
    • 14. Limitations of Liability
      • 14.1 DISCLAIMERS
      • 14.2 DAMAGES CAP
    • 15. Governing Law and Jurisdiction
    • 16. General
      • 16.1 No Assignment
      • 16.2 Audit
      • 16.3 No Waiver
      • 16.4 Trade Compliance
      • 16.5 Government Rights
      • 16.6 Notices
      • 16.7 Force Majeure
      • 16.8 Severability and Amendment
      • 16.9 Independent Contractors
      • 16.10 Construction
      • 16.11 Entire Agreement
      • 16.12 Licensing Questions
NVIDIA NVIDIA

Copyright © 2024-2025, NVIDIA Corporation.

Last updated on Dec 16, 2025.