Hmmm.  I've forgotten / not sure I ever knew -- but I did not think TSS-8 was 
an official product.  I may be confusing / mixing memories here   🤔 - but I 
thought I remember the sources kicking around. (In truth, I'm not sure I can 
help much as I was late to TSS-8).

Anyway,   I always thought it was created by a customer and DEC educational 
system group redistributed it.    ???Maybe try checking some DECUS archives 
from the late 1960s/early 1970s if possible???

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> On Jan 14, 2017, at 4:06 AM, Warren Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I'm the current maintainer of the PiDP-8/I software project. I've been going 
> through the files we distribute to make sure we have proper licenses for them 
> and have come up short on a few things: the TSS-8 and ETOS disk images. I've 
> simply been unable to find any indication online that they were ever licensed 
> for free redistribution.
> 
> I'm posting here because this list was recommended as a place where someone 
> might know whether these OSes were ever formally licensed for free 
> redistribution.
> 
> Since TSS-8 was a DEC product, I'm hoping that it was released under the 
> "hobbyist" licenses they offered at some point. I expect I could sign up for 
> the current OpenVMS hobbyist license, but I have no interest in agreeing to 
> it just to see if it covers this software. Perhaps someone who has agreed to 
> it could confirm this guess? The web site seems to just talk about VMS, which 
> I have no interest in.
> 
> As for ETOS, that wasn't a DEC product, so I have no better guess for where 
> to go trying to find a license for it other than web search engines, and I've 
> already struck out there.
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