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-Copyright Information for ACE and TAO
+Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE and TAO
 
 [1]ACE and [2]TAO are copyrighted by [3]Douglas C. Schmidt and his
 [4]research group at [5]Washington University, Copyright (c)
-1993-1999, all rights reserved. Since ACE is [6]freely available
-[7]open source software, you are free to do anything you like with the
-ACE and TAO source code and object code produced from the source, as
-long as you include this copyright statement along with code built
-using ACE and TAO.
+1993-1999, all rights reserved. Since ACE and TAO are freely
+available, [6]open source software, you are free to do anything you
+like with the ACE and TAO source code and object code produced from
+the source, as long as you include this copyright statement along with
+code built using ACE and TAO.
 
 In particular, you can use ACE and TAO in commercial software and are
 under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is
 built using ACE and TAO. Please note, however, that you may not do
-anything to the ACE and TAO code that will prevent it from being
-distributed freely (such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming
-authorship of the ACE and TAO code).
+anything to the ACE and TAO code, such as copyrighting it yourself or
+claiming authorship of the ACE and TAO code, that will prevent it from
+being distributed freely using an open source development model.
 
-ACE and TAO are provided as is with no warranties of any kind
+ACE and TAO are provided as is with no warranties of any kind,
 including the warranties of design, merchantibility and fitness for a
 particular purpose, noninfringement, or arising from a course of
-dealing, usage or trade practice.
-
-ACE and TAO are provided with no support and without any obligation on
-the part of Washington University, its employees, or students to
-assist in its use, correction, modification or enhancement.
+dealing, usage or trade practice. Moreover, ACE and TAO are provided
+with no support and without any obligation on the part of Washington
+University, its employees, or students to assist in its use,
+correction, modification, or enhancement. However, commercial support
+for ACE and TAO are available from [7]Riverace and [8]OCI,
+respectively.
 
 Washington University, its employees, and students shall have no
 liability with respect to the infringement of copyrights, trade
-secrets or any patents by ACE and TAO or any part thereof.
-
-In no event will Washington University, its employees, or students be
+secrets or any patents by ACE and TAO or any part thereof. Moreover,
+in no event will Washington University, its employees, or students be
 liable for any lost revenue or profits or other special, indirect and
 consequential damages.
 
-If you have any questions, please let me know.
+The [1]ACE and [2]TAO web sites are maintained by the [9]Center for
+Distributed Object Computing of Washington University for the
+development of open source software as part of the [10]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
+[11]ACE and [12]TAO 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 and TAO projects
+or their designees.
+
+If you have any questions, please let [13]me know.
 
-Douglas C. Schmidt
-schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
+[14]Douglas C. Schmidt
 _________________________________________________________________
 
-References
+Back to the [15]ACE home page.
 
-1. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
-2. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html
-3. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
-4. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-members.html
-5. http://www.wustl.edu/
-6. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/98/0810/6209094a.htm
-7. http://www.opensource.org/
+References
 
+   1. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
+   2. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html
+   3. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
+   4. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-members.html
+   5. http://www.wustl.edu/
+   6. http://www.opensource.org/
+   7. http://www.riverace.com/
+   8. file://localhost/project/adaptive/.www-docs/www.ociweb.com
+   9. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/doc-center.html
+  10. http://www.opensource.org/
+  11. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html
+  12. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-obtain.html
+  13. mailto:schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
+  14. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
+  15. file://localhost/project/adaptive/.www-docs/ACE.html