NVIDIA grants you a restricted license to use the software only for your own internal business purposes, and you cannot transfer, sublicense, or share this license with others.
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The license is explicitly limited to internal use, meaning the agreement does not permit commercial redistribution, sublicensing, or building products for external sale without separate authorization from NVIDIA.
Users and organizations receive only a narrow right to use the software internally; any commercial deployment, redistribution, or sublicensing would require a separate agreement with NVIDIA.
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"Subject to the terms of this Agreement, NVIDIA hereby grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use the Software solely for your personal or internal business purposes.— Excerpt from NVIDIA NIM's NVIDIA NIM Terms of Use
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The scope of the license grant engages general contract law principles and may intersect with competition law in jurisdictions where field-of-use restrictions on software licenses are scrutinized. EU and UK competition authorities have at times examined restrictive licensing practices in AI and software markets. No specific statutory framework directly regulates the breadth of commercial software license grants, though enforcement context may vary by jurisdiction. GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The non-sublicensable, non-transferable structure limits how enterprise licensees can structure downstream commercial offerings built on NIM. Organizations building AI-powered products or services using NIM as an inference layer should assess whether their intended commercial use falls within the permitted scope or requires a separate commercial license agreement. JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU and UK competition frameworks may review highly restrictive field-of-use licensing in AI infrastructure contexts. U.S. antitrust analysis of software licensing restrictions is generally permissive but context-dependent. No specific geographic carve-outs or user population flags arise from this provision alone. CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Procurement and vendor management teams should confirm that intended deployment and commercial use scenarios are covered by this license before signing. Organizations that plan to offer NIM-based inference as a service to third parties should seek explicit contractual authorization. The provision does not include audit rights language in the excerpt, though separate audit provisions may exist elsewhere in the agreement. COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should map all intended deployment scenarios against the permitted use definition before deployment. Any commercial offering incorporating NIM outputs or inference capabilities should be reviewed against the sublicense restriction. Contract templates for downstream customers should not assert rights that exceed what NVIDIA has granted under this license.
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The license is explicitly limited to internal use, meaning the agreement does not permit commercial redistribution, sublicensing, or building products for external sale without separate authorization from NVIDIA.
Users and organizations receive only a narrow right to use the software internally; any commercial deployment, redistribution, or sublicensing would require a separate agreement with NVIDIA.
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