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-Copyright 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)
-1993-1997, 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.
-
-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).
-
-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.
-
-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
-liable for any lost revenue or profits or other special, indirect and
-consequential damages.
-
-If you have any questions, please let me know.
-
-Douglas C. Schmidt
-schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
-_________________________________________________________________
-
-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.forbes.com/forbes/98/0810/6209094a.htm
-7. http://www.opensource.org/
-