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)
1993-1999, 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.

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
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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/