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-COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FOR TAO
-
-TAO is copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at
-Washington University, Copyright (c) 1997, all rights reserved. In
-addition, some portions of TAO (particularly the IIOP protocol engine)
-are copyrighted by SunSoft (see the ./IIOP/lib/COPYING.sun file for
-more details). Likewise, TAO relies heavily on ACE, which is also
-copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at Washington
-University (see the ../COPYING file for more details).
-
-You are free to do anything you like with the Wash. U. portions of
-TAO's source code (and object code produced from the source). For
-instance, you can include it in commercial software, as long as you
-include this copyright statement along with code built using TAO.
-
-You are under no obligation to freely redistribute any of your source
-code that is built using TAO. Please note, however, that you may not
-do anything to the ACE code that will prevent it from being
-distributed freely (such as copyrighting it or claiming authorship).
-
-TAO is 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.
-
-TAO is 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 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.
-
- Douglas C. Schmidt
- schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
-