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  Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), and CIAO(TM)
  
   [1]ACE(TM), [2]TAO(TM) and [3]CIAO(TM) are copyrighted by [4]Douglas
   C. Schmidt and his [5]research group at [6]Washington University,
   [7]University of California, Irvine, and [8]Vanderbilt University
   Copyright (c) 1993-2003, all rights reserved. Since ACE+TAO+CIAO are
   open-source, free software, you are free to use, modify, copy, and
   distribute--perpetually and irrevocably--the ACE+TAO+CIAO source code
   and object code produced from the source, as well as copy and
   distribute modified versions of this software. You must, however,
   include this copyright statement along with code built using
   ACE+TAO+CIAO.
   
   You can use ACE+TAO+CIAO in proprietary software and are under no
   obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is built using
   ACE+TAO+CIAO. Note, however, that you may not do anything to the
   ACE+TAO+CIAO code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming
   authorship of the ACE+TAO+CIAO code, that will prevent ACE+TAO+CIAO
   from being distributed freely using an open-source development model.
   You needn't inform anyone that you're using ACE+TAO+CIAO in your
   software, though we encourage you to let [9]us know so we can promote
   your project in the [10]ACE+TAO+CIAO success stories..
   
   ACE+TAO+CIAO are provided as is with no warranties of any kind,
   including the warranties of design, merchantability, and fitness for a
   particular purpose, noninfringement, or arising from a course of
   dealing, usage or trade practice. Moreover, ACE+TAO+CIAO are provided
   with no support and without any obligation on the part of Washington
   University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, their employees, or
   students to assist in its use, correction, modification, or
   enhancement. A [11]number of companies provide commercial support for
   ACE and TAO, however. ACE, TAO and CIAO are Y2K-compliant, as long as
   the underlying OS platform is Y2K-compliant.
   
   Washington University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, their
   employees, and students shall have no liability with respect to the
   infringement of copyrights, trade secrets or any patents by
   ACE+TAO+CIAO or any part thereof. Moreover, in no event will
   Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University, their
   employees, or students be liable for any lost revenue or profits or
   other special, indirect and consequential damages.
   
   The [12]ACE, [13]TAO and [14]CIAO web sites are maintained by the
   [15]Center for Distributed Object Computing of Washington University
   for the development of open-source software as part of the
   [16]open-source software community. By submitting comments,
   suggestions, code, code snippets, techniques (including that of
   usage), and algorithms, submitters acknowledge that they have the
   right to do so, that any such submissions are given freely and
   unreservedly, and that they waive any claims to copyright or
   ownership. In addition, submitters acknowledge that any such
   submission might become part of the copyright maintained on the
   overall body of code, which comprises the [17]ACE, [18]TAO and
   [19]CIAO software. By making a submission, submitter agree to these
   terms. Furthermore, submitters acknowledge that the incorporation or
   modification of such submissions is entirely at the discretion of the
   moderators of the open-source ACE+TAO+CIAO projects or their
   designees.
   
   The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), Washington University, UC
   Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or
   promote products or services derived from this source without express
   written permission from Washington University, UC Irvine, or
   Vanderbilt University. Further, products or services derived from this
   source may not be called ACE(TM), TAO(TM), or CIAO(TM) nor may the
   name Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University appear
   in their names, without express written permission from Washington
   University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University.
   
   If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions, please
   let [20]me know.
   
   [21]Douglas C. Schmidt
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   Last modified 21:26:22 CST 03 November 2003 

References

   1. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
   2. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html
   3. http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CIAO/
   4. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
   5. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-members.html
   6. http://www.wustl.edu/
   7. http://www.uci.edu/
   8. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/
   9. mailto:doc_group@cs.wustl.edu
  10. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-users.html
  11. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/commercial-support.html
  12. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
  13. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html
  14. http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CIAO/
  15. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/doc-center.html
  16. http://www.opensource.org/
  17. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html
  18. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-obtain.html
  19. http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CIAO/
  20. mailto:schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
  21. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
  22. file://localhost/project/adaptive/.www-docs/ACE.html
