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     _________________________________________________________________
   
  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)
   1993-2002, 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