COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FOR ACE

ACE is copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at
Washington University, Copyright (c) 1993-1997, all rights reserved.
You are free to do anything you like with the ACE source code (and
object code produced from the source), e.g., including it in
commercial software, as long as you include this copyright statement
along with code built using ACE.

You are under no obligation to freely redistribute any of your source
code that is built using ACE (be aware that rpc++ is distributed under
the GNU GPL, which has a different copyright policy). 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).  Naturally, neither I nor my research group is
responsible for any problems caused by using ACE.

        Douglas C. Schmidt 
        schmidt@cs.wustl.edu