IBM eserver  pSeries & RS/6000 License Agreement for Machine Code
Regardless of how you acquire (electronically, preloaded, on media or otherwise) BIOS, Utilities, Diagnostics, Device Drivers or Microcode (called "Machine Code"), you accept the terms of this Agreement by your initial use of a Machine or Machine Code. The term "Machine" means an IBM machine, its features, conversions, upgrades, elements or accessories, or any combination of them. Acceptance of these license terms authorizes you to use Machine Code with the specific product for which it is provided.
International Business Machines Corporation or one of its subsidiaries ("IBM"), or an IBM supplier, owns copyrights in Machine Code.
IBM grants you a nonexclusive license to use Machine Code only in conjunction with a Machine. As the rightful possessor of a Machine, you may make a reasonable number of copies of Machine Code as necessary for backup, configuration, and restoration of the Machine. You may authorize a third-party contractor or service provider to exercise these rights on your behalf and for your benefit. You must reproduce the copyright notice and any other legend of ownership on each copy of Machine Code you make.
You may transfer possession of Machine Code and its media to another party only with the transfer of the Machine on which the Machine Code is used. If you do so, you must give the other party a copy of these terms and provide all user documentation to that party. When you do so, you must destroy all your copies of Machine Code.
Your license for Machine Code terminates when you no longer rightfully possess the Machine.
No other rights under this license are granted.
You may not, for example, do any of the following:
  1. Otherwise copy, display, transfer, adapt, modify, or distribute in any form, Machine Code, except as IBM may authorize in a Machine's user documentation;
  2. Reverse assemble, reverse compile, or otherwise translate the Machine Code, unless expressly permitted by applicable law without the possibility of contractual waiver;
  3. Sublicense or assign the license for the Machine Code; or
  4. Lease the Machine Code or any copy of it.
The terms of IBM's Machine Warranty, which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference, apply to Machine Code. Please refer to that Statement for any questions or claims regarding performance or liability for Machine Code.
Form No.: Z125-5468-01 9/99
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