OK about when you joined I believe the issues regarding the Copy right issues with HP was dealt with before I and most changed to this group IO in 2005 from the previews group ( I believe this group started in about Sep 2003 )
Regarding ?“ license exist for distributing manuals” that is new to me is that for Tek or HP ??
Regarding Tek going back to about 1990 I was dealing with a test equipment repair man in the UK that had a document from Tek basically saying they had no problem with him copying there service information
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Just one question while we are talking? Did you design the LCD upgrade unites for the HP equipment or is there a team of you designing and making them ?
From: HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment@groups.io [mailto:HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment@groups.io] On Behalf Of Xu Wang via groups.io Sent: 27 October 2021 05:42 To: HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment@groups.io Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Agilent/Keysigh ESG series CLIP
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Thanks, Paul, for the background information. I joined the Yahoo group in 2009, so I wouldn't know about what happend 15 years ago in the group.
The topic has been brought up a couple of times in here and also in the Tek group. That's how I came to know that a license exist for distributing manuals of obsolete HP test equipment. At one time I even wanted to apply for one, so that I can make avaiable some of the CLIPs that I scanned and couldn't find elsewhere online. But I didn't follow through. I still think it would be wise to 'stay on the safe side'.
The very CLIP that Milan talked about here (E4400-90336), I bought a pdf copy online in 2019 for not much money, and used it to fix my E4436B. The scan quality isn't as good as the earliver version E4400-90015 I scanned myself, but was good enough and didn't take any guesswork to read. The pdf files were dated 2018 so there may be other copies sold before mine.