Since the L4T release is using Ubuntu, do we need to purchase the Ubuntu License for distribution and Installation on the platform If we offer our customized carrier board with L4T image?
How shall we handle the licensing affairs? How shall we mention in the license notification in our distribution material such as user manual?
Users/developers are expected to deploy Jetson with software pre-installed and configured for use in end products, so what you describe should be fine. If you have further questions, please consult the EULA’s included in JetPack or the Software License Agreement
NVIDIA JetPack also includes a reference file system derived from Ubuntu. This reference file system includes packages bundled with their corresponding copyrights and licenses terms. Review the open source license terms and the Canonical Intellectual property rights policy before use. Contact Canonical for any questions regarding the Canonical Intellectual Property Rights Policy.
FYI, the gist of Ubuntu licensing is that you don’t claim ownership, and that you in some form make it available. This is why NVIDIA distributes the Ubuntu part as a standard “sample rootfs”…it is just pure Ubuntu, it doesn’t claim ownership, and it has the README type content and information to find Ubuntu. It is the end user who overlays the NVIDIA-specific drivers onto the sample rootfs during flash. It is this separate content from NVIDIA which has different licensing, but as @kayccc just mentioned, it has a EULA and a software license agreement which is much like open source. It is not something which people would normally need to purchase anything to distribute since you are not claiming it as your sole property.
EDIT: Note that Canonical (Ubuntu) also inherits and passes along “free” licensing since most of the user space is GNU, and the kernel is what is actually Linux (both of which have licenses which are inherited and passed along and not “for fee”).
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Hi kayccc
Based on the EULA’s included in JetPack or the Software License Agreement , it only mentions “solely for Customer’s use within Customer’s Enterprise”. I do not find the wording to support that we can distribute and Install the L4T image on the platform or customized carrier board we build and sell to our customer. Can you pls help to advice it? TKS
Same answer as the previous comments - Users/developers are expected to deploy Jetson with software pre-installed and configured for use in end products, so what you describe should be fine.
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