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Licensing Terms

Licensing Terms#

Applies to Linux and Windows

2023-06-02

7 min read time

ROCm™ is released by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and is licensed per component separately. The following table is a list of ROCm components with links to their respective license terms. These components may include third party components subject to additional licenses. Please review individual repositories for more information. The table shows ROCm components, the name of license and link to the license terms. The table is ordered to follow ROCm’s manifest file.

Component

License

ROCK-Kernel-Driver

GPL 2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note

ROCT-Thunk-Interface

MIT

ROCR-Runtime

The University of Illinois/NCSA

rocm_smi_lib

The University of Illinois/NCSA

rocm-cmake

MIT

rocminfo

The University of Illinois/NCSA

rocprofiler

MIT

roctracer

MIT

ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime

MIT

ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime/api/opencl/khronos/icd

Apache 2.0

clang-ocl

MIT

HIP

MIT

hipamd

MIT

ROCclr

MIT

HIPIFY

MIT

HIPCC

MIT

llvm-project

Apache

rocm-llvm-alt

AMD Proprietary License

ROCm-Device-Libs

The University of Illinois/NCSA

atmi

MIT

ROCm-CompilerSupport

The University of Illinois/NCSA

rocr_debug_agent

The University of Illinois/NCSA

rocm_bandwidth_test

The University of Illinois/NCSA

half

MIT

RCP

MIT

ROCgdb

GNU General Public License v2.0

ROCdbgapi

MIT

rdc

MIT

rocBLAS

MIT

Tensile

MIT

hipBLAS

MIT

rocFFT

MIT

hipFFT

MIT

rocRAND

MIT

rocSPARSE

MIT

rocSOLVER

BSD-2-Clause

hipSOLVER

MIT

hipSPARSE

MIT

rocALUTION

MIT

MIOpenGEMM

MIT

MIOpen

MIT

rccl

Custom

MIVisionX

MIT

rocThrust

Apache 2.0

hipCUB

Custom

rocPRIM

MIT

rocWMMA

MIT

hipfort

MIT

AMDMIGraphX

MIT

ROCmValidationSuite

MIT

aomp

Apache 2.0

aomp-extras

MIT

flang

Apache 2.0

Open sourced ROCm components are released via public GitHub repositories, packages on https://repo.radeon.com and other distribution channels. Proprietary products are only available on https://repo.radeon.com. Currently, only one component of ROCm, rocm-llvm-alt is governed by a proprietary license. Proprietary components are organized in a proprietary subdirectory in the package repositories to distinguish from open sourced packages.

The additional terms and conditions below apply to your use of ROCm technical documentation.

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Package Licensing#

Attention

AQL Profiler and AOCC CPU optimization are both provided in binary form, each subject to the license agreement enclosed in the directory for the binary and is available here: /opt/rocm/share/doc/rocm-llvm-alt/EULA. By using, installing, copying or distributing AQL Profiler and/or AOCC CPU Optimizations, you agree to the terms and conditions of this license agreement. If you do not agree to the terms of this agreement, do not install, copy or use the AQL Profiler and/or the AOCC CPU Optimizations.

For the rest of the ROCm packages, you can find the licensing information at the following location: /opt/rocm/share/doc/<component-name>/

For example, you can fetch the licensing information of the _amd_comgr_ component (Code Object Manager) from the amd_comgr folder. A file named LICENSE.txt contains the license details at: /opt/rocm-5.4.3/share/doc/amd_comgr/LICENSE.txt