NVIDIA Tegra
NVIDIA DRIVE 5.0 Foundation SDK

Development Guide
5.0.10.3 Release


 
Third-Party Licenses
 
Coding Technologies/AAC+
Thomson Multimedia/MP3
MPEG L.A., L.L.C./MPEG-2
MPEG-2 AAC
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft MPEG-4 HE-AAC
Microsoft Windows Media
Microsoft PlayReady or WMDRM technology
Ogg Vorbis License
This topic provides license information about the third-party software libraries included in this NVIDIA product.
Coding Technologies/AAC+
Licensee shall be solely responsible for either obtaining a proper patent license under the Essential Patents for end products or to notify Licensee's respective customers of their obligations to obtain a proper patent license under the Essential Patents for end products in which the NVIDIA application processor(s) and/or the NVIDIA software package may be used. For the purpose of this paragraph, "Essential Patents" means patents which are infringed by the manufacture, offer for sale, sale (or other form of commercialization), use or import of products (hardware or software) implementing, incorporating, containing or using AACPLUSV2 or by the application of processes involving AACPLUSV2, including those which are infringed by any source code provided as part of any specification characterizing AACPLUSV2.
Thomson Multimedia/MP3
Supply of the Licensed Materials does not convey a license under the relevant intellectual property of Thomson Multimedia and/or Fraunhofer Gesellschaft nor imply any right to use the Licensed Materials in any finished end user or ready-to-use final product. An independent license for such use is required. For details, please visit http://www.mp3licensing.com"
MPEG L.A., L.L.C./MPEG-2
USE OF THE APPLICABLE NVIDIA SOFTWARE PACKAGE IN ANY MANNER THAT COMPLIES WITH THE MPEG-2 STANDARD IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED WITHOUT A LICENSE UNDER APPLICABLE PATENTS IN THE MPEG-2 PATENT PORTFOLIO, WHICH LICENSE IS AVAILABLE FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C., 250 STREELE STREET, SUITE 300, DENVER, COLORADO 80206. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED HEREIN, BY IMPLICATION OR OTHERWISE, TO LICENSEE TO USE MPEG 2 INTERMEDIATE PRODUCTS MANUFACTURED OR SOLD BY LICENSEE.
MPEG-2 AAC
Licensee shall be solely responsible for either obtaining a valid and current license from AT&T Corp., Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and Sony Corporation for the applicable version of MPEG-2 AAC.
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft MPEG-4 HE-AAC
Licensee understands and accepts that (a) it may be necessary to execute a patent license with the appropriate licensing entities in order to obtain all rights necessary to create Licensee's products; and (b) Licensee will contact the appropriate licensing entities, e.g. Via Licensing, and negotiate in good faith the adequate contracts, if any. In addition, it is hereby understood that in the event that, besides the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft patents licensed through such appropriate licensing entities, any further Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft patent shall be required in order to use the Licensed Materials, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft shall not request from Licensee any additional payment in order to receive a license to such further Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft patent, as long as Licensee remains a valid licensee of such appropriate licensing entity.
Microsoft Windows Media
Licensee acknowledges the following notice: "This product includes technology owned by Microsoft Corporation and cannot be used or further distributed without a license from Microsoft or a Microsoft affiliate."
Microsoft PlayReady or WMDRM technology
Licensee acknowledges that the Licensed Materials (i) contain a certain version of Microsoft PlayReady or WMDRM technology ("PlayReady Technology"); and (ii) are subject to certain intellectual property rights of Microsoft and cannot be used or distributed further without the appropriate license(s) from Microsoft.
Licensee represents and warrants that (i) Licensee holds a current and valid license under a PlayReady Device Agreement and Intermediated Product Distribution License, a PlayReady Final Product Distribution License, or a like agreement, with Microsoft or a Microsoft affiliate; and (ii) Licensee will use the PlayReady Technology provided under this Agreement in Licensees' software, hardware product, or service offering that (a) is intended for distribution to and/or use by end users; and (b) is in a final form with Licensee-owned brand and/or logo most prominently displayed brand in a fully functional user interface.
Ogg Vorbis License
Copyright (c) 2002, Xiph.org Foundation
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the Xiph.org Foundation nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
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