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_________________________________________________________________
Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), and CIAO(TM)
[1]ACE(TM), [2]TAO(TM) and [3]CIAO(TM) are copyrighted by [4]Douglas
C. Schmidt and his [5]research group at [6]Washington University,
[7]University of California, Irvine, and [8]Vanderbilt University
Copyright (c) 1993-2003, all rights reserved. Since ACE+TAO+CIAO are
open-source, free software, you are free to use, modify, copy, and
distribute--perpetually and irrevocably--the ACE+TAO+CIAO source code
and object code produced from the source, as well as copy and
distribute modified versions of this software. You must, however,
include this copyright statement along with code built using
ACE+TAO+CIAO.
You can use ACE+TAO+CIAO in proprietary software and are under no
obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is built using
ACE+TAO+CIAO. Note, however, that you may not do anything to the
ACE+TAO+CIAO code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming
authorship of the ACE+TAO+CIAO code, that will prevent ACE+TAO+CIAO
from being distributed freely using an open-source development model.
You needn't inform anyone that you're using ACE+TAO+CIAO in your
software, though we encourage you to let [9]us know so we can promote
your project in the [10]ACE+TAO+CIAO success stories..
ACE+TAO+CIAO are provided as is with no warranties of any kind,
including the warranties of design, merchantability, and fitness for a
particular purpose, noninfringement, or arising from a course of
dealing, usage or trade practice. Moreover, ACE+TAO+CIAO are provided
with no support and without any obligation on the part of Washington
University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, their employees, or
students to assist in its use, correction, modification, or
enhancement. A [11]number of companies provide commercial support for
ACE and TAO, however. ACE, TAO and CIAO are Y2K-compliant, as long as
the underlying OS platform is Y2K-compliant.
Washington University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, their
employees, and students shall have no liability with respect to the
infringement of copyrights, trade secrets or any patents by
ACE+TAO+CIAO or any part thereof. Moreover, in no event will
Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University, their
employees, or students be liable for any lost revenue or profits or
other special, indirect and consequential damages.
The [12]ACE, [13]TAO and [14]CIAO web sites are maintained by the
[15]Center for Distributed Object Computing of Washington University
for the development of open-source software as part of the
[16]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 [17]ACE, [18]TAO and
[19]CIAO 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+TAO+CIAO projects or their
designees.
The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), Washington University, UC
Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or
promote products or services derived from this source without express
written permission from Washington University, UC Irvine, or
Vanderbilt University. Further, products or services derived from this
source may not be called ACE(TM), TAO(TM), or CIAO(TM) nor may the
name Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University appear
in their names, without express written permission from Washington
University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University.
If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions, please
let [20]me know.
[21]Douglas C. Schmidt
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Back to the [22]ACE home page.
Last modified 21:26:22 CST 03 November 2003
References
1. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
2. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html
3. http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CIAO/
4. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
5. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-members.html
6. http://www.wustl.edu/
7. http://www.uci.edu/
8. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/
9. mailto:doc_group@cs.wustl.edu
10. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-users.html
11. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/commercial-support.html
12. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
13. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO.html
14. http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CIAO/
15. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/doc-center.html
16. http://www.opensource.org/
17. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-obtain.html
18. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/TAO-obtain.html
19. http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/CIAO/
20. mailto:schmidt@cs.wustl.edu
21. http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/
22. file://localhost/project/adaptive/.www-docs/ACE.html
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