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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
+     _________________________________________________________________
+   
+   Back to the [22]ACE home page.
+   
+   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