ROCm license

Applies to Linux and Windows

2024-06-21

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MIT License

Copyright © 2023 - 2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Note

The preceding license applies to the ROCm repository, which primarily contains documentation. For licenses related to other ROCm components, refer to the following section.

ROCm component licenses

ROCm is released by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) 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.

Component	License
HIP	MIT
HIPCC	MIT
HIPIFY	MIT
AMDMIGraphX	MIT
MIOpen	MIT
MIVisionX	MIT
AMD Common Language Runtime (CLR)	MIT
ROCm-Core	MIT
hipamd	MIT
ROCm-OpenCL-Runtime	MIT
Tensile	MIT
aomp	Apache 2.0
aomp-extras	MIT
llvm-project	Apache
llvm-project/flang	Apache 2.0
Code Object Manager (Comgr)	The University of Illinois/NCSA
ROCm-Device-Libs	The University of Illinois/NCSA
clang-ocl	MIT
ROCK-Kernel-Driver	GPL 2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note
ROCT-Thunk-Interface	MIT
ROCR-Runtime	The University of Illinois/NCSA
ROCR Debug Agent	The University of Illinois/NCSA
Composable Kernel	MIT
half	MIT
hipBLAS	MIT
hipBLASLt	MIT
hipCUB	Custom
hipFFT	MIT
hipFORT	MIT
hipRAND	MIT
hipSOLVER	MIT
hipSPARSE	MIT
hipSPARSELt	MIT
hipTensor	MIT
rocAL	MIT
rocALUTION	MIT
rocBLAS	MIT
rocDecode	MIT
rocFFT	MIT
rocPRIM	MIT
ROCm Performance Primitives (RPP)	MIT
rocRAND	MIT
rocSOLVER	BSD-2-Clause
rocSPARSE	MIT
rocThrust	Apache 2.0
rocWMMA	MIT
ROCm Communication Collectives Library (RCCL)	Custom
ROCm Data Center (RDC)	MIT
ROCm CMake	MIT
ROCdbgapi	MIT
ROCgdb	GNU General Public License v2.0
ROCm SMI Lib	MIT
AMD SMI	MIT
rocminfo	The University of Illinois/NCSA
ROCProfiler	MIT
ROCTracer	MIT
ROCm Bandwidth Test	The University of Illinois/NCSA
TransferBench	MIT
ROCmValidationSuite	MIT
hsa-amd-aqlprofile	AMD Software EULA

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.

Note

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

©2023 - 2024 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved.

The information presented in this document is for informational purposes only and may contain technical inaccuracies, omissions, and typographical errors. The information contained herein is subject to change and may be rendered inaccurate for many reasons, including but not limited to product and roadmap changes, component and motherboard version changes, new model and/or product releases, product differences between differing manufacturers, software changes, BIOS flashes, firmware upgrades, or the like. Any computer system has risks of security vulnerabilities that cannot be completely prevented or mitigated. AMD assumes no obligation to update or otherwise correct or revise this information. However, AMD reserves the right to revise this information and to make changes from time to time to the content hereof without obligation of AMD to notify any person of such revisions or changes.

THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED “AS IS.” AMD MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTENTS HEREOF AND ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY INACCURACIES, ERRORS, OR OMISSIONS THAT MAY APPEAR IN THIS INFORMATION. AMD SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL AMD BE LIABLE TO ANY PERSON FOR ANY RELIANCE, DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, OR OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN, EVEN IF AMD IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, ROCm, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other product names used in this publication are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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 available in /opt/rocm/share/doc/hsa-amd-aqlprofile/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>/ or in the locations specified in the preceding table.

For example, you can fetch the licensing information of the amd_comgr component (Code Object Manager) from the /opt/rocm/share/doc/amd_comgr/LICENSE.txt file.