Licenses and Contributing

The NVIDIA GPU Operator source code is licensed under Apache 2.0 and contributions are accepted with a DCO. See the contributing document in the software repository more information on how to contribute and the release artifacts.

The NVIDIA GPU Operator includes components that are governed by the following NVIDIA End User License Agreements. By installing and using the Operator, you accept the terms and conditions of these licenses.

• NVIDIA Deep Learning Container License

• NVIDIA Driver License

• NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM) License

Because the underlying images can include components that are licensed under open-source licenses such as GPL, the sources for these components are archived on the CUDA open source index.

The following table outlines the license for the components.

	Artifact Type	Artifact Licenses	Source Code License
NVIDIA GPU Operator	Helm Chart	Apache 2.0	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA GPU Operator	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA GPU Feature Discovery	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA GPU Driver	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE and NVIDIA GPU Driver	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA Container Toolkit	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA Kubernetes Device Plugin	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA MIG Manager for Kubernetes	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
Validator for NVIDIA GPU Operator	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA DCGM	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager License
DCGM Exporter	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA Driver Manager for Kubernetes	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0
NVIDIA KubeVirt GPU Device Plugin	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License
NVIDIA vGPU Device Manager	Image	NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE	Apache 2.0