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diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING deleted file mode 100644 index a8f89534e82..00000000000 --- a/COPYING +++ /dev/null @@ -1,90 +0,0 @@ - - _________________________________________________________________ - - Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM) and TAO(TM) - - [1]ACE(TM) and [2]TAO(TM) 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 and TAO are [6]open source, - [7]free software, you are free to use, modify, and distribute 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 proprietary software and are - under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is - built using ACE and TAO. Note, however, that you may not do anything - to the ACE and TAO code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming - authorship of the ACE and TAO code, that will prevent ACE and TAO from - being distributed freely using an open source development model. - - 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. 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 [8]Riverace and [9]OCI, - respectively. Moreover, both ACE and TAO are Y2K-compliant, as long as - the underlying OS platform is Y2K-compliant. - - 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. 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. - - The [10]ACE and [11]TAO web sites are maintained by the [12]Center for - Distributed Object Computing of Washington University for the - development of open source software as part of the [13]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 - [14]ACE and [15]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. - - The names ACE - (TM), TAO(TM), and Washington University may not be used to endorse or - promote products or services derived from this source without express - written permission from Washington University. Further, products or - services derived from this source may not be called ACE(TM) or - TAO(TM), nor may the name Washington University appear in their names, - without express written permission from Washington University. - - If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions, please - let [16]me know. - - [17]Douglas C. Schmidt - _________________________________________________________________ - - Back to the [18]ACE home page. - -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.gnu.org/ - 8. http://www.riverace.com/ - 9. file://localhost/home/cs/faculty/schmidt/.www-docs/www.ociweb.com - 10. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html - 11. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html - 12. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/doc-center.html - 13. http://www.opensource.org/ - 14. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html - 15. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-obtain.html - 16. mailto:schmidt@cs.wustl.edu - 17. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ - 18. file://localhost/home/cs/faculty/schmidt/.www-docs/ACE.html |