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MDL SDK Copyright and License

Copyright (c) 2018, NVIDIA CORPORATION. All rights reserved.

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.
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Images and Resource Files License

The following images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License :

• doc/images/mdl_material_examples.jpg
• doc/images/mdl_local_coordinates.jpg
• doc/images/mdl_icon.png

Images (.png, .jpg and .hdr file extensions), lightprofile files (.ies file extension), and BSDF measurement files (.mbsdf file extension) in the examples/mdl/nvidia/ directory, are collectively called MDL Example Resources and are licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. To the extent possible under law, NVIDIA Corporation has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the MDL Example Resources.

Copyrights and Licenses for Third-Party Software in the MDL SDK

The MDL SDK software contains code written by third parties. Such software will have its own individual license file in the directory in which it appears. This file will describe the copyrights, license, and restrictions which apply to that code.

The following pieces of software have additional or alternate copyrights, licenses, and/or restrictions:

• LLVM: src/mdl/jit/llvm/dist/LICENSE.TXT
• libzip: src/base/lib/libzip/
• zlib: src/base/lib/zlib/README
• Coco/R: src/mdl/compiler/coco/LICENSE (1)
• tinyxml2: examples/thirdparty/tinyxml2/include/tinyxml2.h examples/thirdparty/tinyxml2/src/tinyxml2.cpp (2)
• Dear ImGui with stb: examples/thirdparty/imgui (2)

The documentation uses the following web fonts, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks with additional or alternate copyrights, licenses, and/or restrictions:

• jQuery v3.2.1: doc/js/jquery/jquery-3.2.1.min.js, see https://jquery.org/license
• normalize.css v1.1.3: doc/core_definitions/kt_css/normalize.css, doc/base_module/kt_css/normalize.css
• Libre Baskerville: doc/css/librebaskerville/LICENSE-LibreBaskerville.txt
• Source Sans Pro: doc/css/sourcesanspro/LICENSE-SourceSansPro.txt

Notes

(1) Coco/R is only used for code generation in the build process and is not integrated by itself in the MDL SDK binaries.

(2) tinyxml2, Dear ImgUi and stb are only used in the examples and are not integrated by themselves in the MDL SDK binaries.