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OpenHW Group Terms of Use

May 28, 2019

As used herein, the term “you” means the individual accessing this Web site, as well as any person or entity which has granted to such individual the authority to enter into this agreement on its behalf. By accessing, browsing, or using this Web site, you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by these terms.

This Web site and related services are made available by the OpenHW Group. All software, documentation, information and/or other materials provided on and through this Web site (“Content”) and all of the related services offered by the OpenHW Group may be used solely under the following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”).

This Web site may contain other proprietary notices and copyright information, the terms of which must be observed and followed. The Content on this Web site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors and may be changed or updated without notice. The OpenHW Group may also make improvements and/or changes to the Content at any time without notice.

Neither the OpenHW Group nor its members (“Members”) assume any responsibility regarding the accuracy of the Content and use of the Content is at the recipient’s own risk. Neither the OpenHW Group nor its Members provide any assurances that any reported problems with any Content will be resolved. Except as otherwise expressly stated herein or in another applicable license, by providing the Content, neither the OpenHW Group nor the Members grant any licenses to any copyrights, patents or any other intellectual property rights in the Content.

The OpenHW Group and the Members do not want to receive confidential information from you through this Web site and related services. Please note that any information or material sent to The OpenHW Group or the Members will be deemed NOT to be confidential and will be publicly available.

You are prohibited from posting, transmitting, or storing to or from this Web site or to any service offered by the OpenHW Group any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material, or any other material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under the law.

If you believe that Content residing or accessible on or through this Web site or any UDS infringes a copyright, please send a notice of copyright infringement to our designated agent pursuant to the procedures set forth here: https://www.eclipse.org/legal/copyright.php

User Data Services (“UDS”)

As a service to you, Eclipse.org services or Eclipse software may offer functionality whereby you can store or share certain information on OpenHW Group’s computer systems, so that it is accessible to you from various devices that you use. Examples include, but are not limited to, Eclipse IoT sandbox servers, the User Storage Service, and the Automated Error Reporting Initiative. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ALL INFORMATION THAT YOU STORE OR SHARE WITH ECLIPSE WILL BE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE ON THE INTERNET IN UNENCRYPTED FORM AND WITHOUT ANY ACCESS RESTRICTIONS. Do not store or share passwords, any personally identifiable information, any confidential business information, or anything else that you do not want to be generally and publicly available. By using this functionality, any information that you store or share (the “Stored Information”) will be subject to the CC0 1.0 Creative Commons license, where, for purposes of that license, the Stored Information shall constitute the “Work” and you shall be the “Affirmer”. What that means is that anybody who accesses your information on the Internet has a worldwide, unrestricted, royalty free, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, make, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, sell, distribute, sublicense or otherwise transfer the Stored Information without any obligation to you, including any obligation of attribution.

Eclipse reserves the right to discontinue these services at any time or to remove any specific Stored Information from owned or controlled computer systems at any time, and Eclipse does not commit to making Stored Information available at all times in the future.

Licenses

Except for Content available through the UDS, and except as otherwise stated herein, the Content provided on this Web site is provided under the terms and conditions of the Eclipse Foundation Software User Agreement and those additional terms, conditions and notices referenced therein.

If Content is licensed to you under the terms and conditions of a version of the Eclipse Public License ("EPL"), with respect to such Content, the term “Contributions” as used herein shall have the meaning provided in the EPL, and any such Contributions uploaded, submitted, or otherwise made available by you to the Eclipse Foundation and/or the Members and/or users of this Web site shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the EPL and can be made available to others under the terms of the EPL.

If Content is licensed to you under license terms and conditions other than the EPL (“Other License”) with respect to such Content the term “Contributions “ as used herein shall mean any modifications, enhancements and/or other code and/or documentation related to such Content uploaded, submitted, or otherwise made available by you to the Eclipse Foundation and/or the Members and/or users of this Web site, and such Contributions shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions of the Other License. In addition, with regard to such Contributions, you agree to provide the Contributions under the terms and conditions of the EPL, provided however that the Eclipse Foundation shall have the right to reject any Contributions if the acceptance by the Eclipse Foundation would be in any way inconsistent with the Eclipse Foundation Intellectual Property Policy.

In addition to the licenses granted above, you grant a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free license of all necessary rights under your copyright in and to your Contributions (the “Specification Grant”): (a) for the Eclipse Foundation (and its contributors solely as a part of Eclipse Foundation projects) to create, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, distribute and sublicense specifications subject to the terms of the then-current Eclipse Foundation Specification License, based on or derived from the Specification Content (as defined below) and (b) for recipients of such specifications to create, reproduce, and distribute implementations thereof based on the portion of your Contributions or material derived from them in the specifications, subject to the terms of the then-current Eclipse Foundation Specification License.

“Specification Content” is the collection of interface definitions for the application or user interfaces (“Interfaces”) provided by the work to which your Contribution was made, descriptions of the structure and semantic behavior of those Interfaces, and data formats and protocols associated with those Interfaces, all of which as are reasonably necessary to enable the development of independent implementations of those Interfaces. For the sake of clarity, Specification Content does not include implementation details of how the Eclipse project code or your Contribution implements the Interfaces in the Specification and the Specification Grant provide above would not cover such additional material.

To the extent you submit or otherwise make available to an Eclipse Foundation Specification Project (as that term is defined by the Intellectual Property Policy) any ideas, concepts, methods or other information, you agree that you will not assert, based on such submissions, any intellectual property rights that are essential to any implementation of the submission, against the OpenHW Group, its contributors, or its licensees, with respect to any implementation of such Specification (as that term is defined by the Eclipse Foundation Specification Process). To further clarify, such submissions include, but are not limited to, submissions made to any public communications channel such as an email list, forum, or bug report.

To the extent you wish to upload, submit, or otherwise make Non-Code Content (as defined below) available to the OpenHW Group and/or the Members and/or users of this Web site, you may make that material available under the terms and conditions of the EPL or any other license stipulated for that purpose at www.eclipse.org/legal. Non-Code Content is Content for which you own or control all rights, and which is not program code intended to be submitted to a Project (or documentation related to such code) and which is not Stored Information. For example, Non-Code Content would include white papers, dissertations, articles or other literary works, power-point presentations, encyclopedias, anthologies, wikis, blogs, diagrams, drawings, sketches, photos or other images, audio content, video content and audiovisual materials.

For all other software, information and other material including, without limitation, ideas, concepts, know-how and techniques, uploaded, submitted or otherwise made available to The OpenHW Group, the Members, and/or users of this Website, (collectively “Material”), if the paragraphs above are inapplicable, and if the Material is not Stored Information, you grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) a license under either the applicable Project License(s) (as that term is defined in the Eclipse Intellectual Property Policy), or, if no such Project License(s) is applicable, you grant (or warrant that the owner of such rights has expressly granted) the OpenHW Group, the Members and the users of this Web-site a worldwide, unrestricted, royalty free, fully paid up, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, make, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, sell, distribute, sublicense or otherwise transfer such Materials, and/or derivative works thereof, and authorize third parties to do any, some or all of the foregoing including, but not limited to, sublicensing others to do any some or all of the foregoing indefinitely.

You represent and warrant that to your knowledge, you have sufficient rights in the Materials to grant the foregoing rights and licenses.

All logos and trademarks contained on this Web site are and remain the property of their respective owners. No licenses or other rights in or to such logos and/or trademarks are granted to you.

You can learn more about the OpenHWGroup.org privacy practices on the Web.

Disclaimers

The OpenHW Group and the Members make no representations whatsoever about any other Web site that you may access through this Web site. When you access a non-OpenHW Group Web site, even one that may contain the organization’s name or mark, please understand that it is independent from the OpenHW Group, and that the OpenHW Group and the Members have no control over the content on such Web site. In addition, a link to a non-OpenHW Group Web site does not mean that the OpenHW Group or the Members endorse or accept any responsibility for the content, or the use, of such Web site. It is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever you select for your use is free of such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other items of a destructive nature.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE OpenHW Group AND/OR THE MEMBERS BE LIABLE TO YOU (AN INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY) OR ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES RELATED TO ANY USE OF THIS WEB SITE, THE CONTENT, STORED INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER HYPER LINKED WEB SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SALES, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF PROGRAMS OR OTHER DATA ON YOUR OR OUR INFORMATION HANDLING SYSTEMS OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THE OpenHW Group OR THE MEMBERS ARE EXPRESSLY ADVISED OR AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES.

ALL CONTENT IS PROVIDED BY THE OpenHW Group AND/OR THE MEMBERS ON AN “AS IS” BASIS ONLY. THE OpenHW Group AND THE MEMBERS PROVIDE NO REPRESENTATIONS, CONDITIONS AND/OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY AND NONINFRINGEMENT. THE OpenHW Group MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SECURITY OF ANY INOFRMATION OR CONTENT STORED WITH THE OpenHW Group.

The OpenHW Group and the Members reserve the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of these Terms of Use and to take any action they deem appropriate including, without limitation, reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to user profiles, e-mail addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information.

The OpenHW Group and the Members reserve the right to seek all remedies available at law and in equity for violations of these Terms of Use, including but not limited to the right to block access from a particular Internet address to this Web site.

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