Statement by project contributors regarding copyright, ownership, and AUP compliance.

[johnsonjh]

• The mission of the S1500 project is to preserve knowledge, cultural and technological heritage, and historic materials, including but not limited to hardware, software, and documentation, relating to the S1500-series of computer systems produced by Texas Instruments, and later distributed as the HP 9000 Series 1500 by Hewlett-Packard.

• This repository exists solely for the socially beneficial purposes of scholarship, historic preservation, research, and education.

• The S1500 project contributors closely follow the practices documented within the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation and the Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Collections Containing Orphan Works for Libraries, Archives, and other Memory Institutions as published by The Center for Media & Social Impact, and Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices as published by the Intellectual Property Working Group of The Society of American Archivists.

• In cases where the ownership of third party materials (including but not limited to currently commercially-available software and legacy software which cannot be obtained in the commercial marketplace) can be determined, the S1500 project contributors engage with these owners to ensure that their rights are respected.

• In cases where materials have been donated, all use and distribution of these materials and related preservation activities are undertaken in light of the terms of donor agreements, which may limit reuse, redistribution, and access.

• This repository distributes materials, including but not limited to documentation and software, explicitly intended to circumvent hardware and software license protection routines, while maintaining full compliance with the GitHub Acceptable Use Policy, including Section 3: Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information.

• All materials within this repository are distributed without cost, AS IS, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

• The project contributors make no warranty or representation regarding the accuracy, currency, completeness, authenticity, reliability, or usefulness of any materials, including any software, contained within this repository.

• All product names, brand names, logos, service marks, trademarks, and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All company, product, and service names are used are for identification purposes only. Use of these names, brands, and marks does not imply endorsement unless explicitly stated.

• Third party materials are provided in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, and distributed without profit for non-commercial research and educational purposes, for use by those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving those materials. The project contributors claim no affiliation, endorsement, or sponsorship whatsoever by the originators of these materials. If you wish to use these copyrighted third party materials for any purposes beyond "fair use", you MUST locate and obtain permission from the current copyright owner.

• All software and other materials within this repository are NOT intended for use in medical, life saving, life sustaining, critical control or safety systems, or in nuclear facility applications.