| Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), |
| and CoSMIC(TM) |
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| ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), and CoSMIC(TM) (henceforth referred to as |
| "DOC software") are copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research |
| group at Washington University, University of California, Irvine, and |
| Vanderbilt University, Copyright (c) 1993-2009, all rights reserved. |
| Since DOC software is open-source, freely available software, |
| you are free to use, modify, copy, and distribute--perpetually and |
| irrevocably--the DOC software 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 any code built using DOC software that you release. No |
| copyright statement needs to be provided if you just ship binary |
| executables of your software products. |
| |
| You can use DOC software in commercial and/or binary software releases |
| and are under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code |
| that is built using DOC software. Note, however, that you may not do |
| anything to the DOC software code, such as copyrighting it yourself |
| or claiming authorship of the DOC software code, that will prevent |
| DOC software from being distributed freely using an open-source |
| development model. You needn't inform anyone that you're using DOC |
| software in your software, though we encourage you to let us know so |
| we can promote your project in the DOC software success stories. |
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| The ACE, TAO, CIAO, and CoSMIC web sites are maintained by the |
| DOC Group at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) |
| and the Center for Distributed Object Computing of Washington |
| University, St. Louis for the development of open-source software |
| as part of the open-source software community. Submissions are |
| provided by the submitter ``as is'' with no warranties whatsoever, |
| including any warranty of merchantability, noninfringement of |
| third party intellectual property, or fitness for any particular |
| purpose. In no event shall the submitter be liable for any direct, |
| indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, |
| including without limitation, lost profits, even if advised of the |
| possibility of such damages. Likewise, DOC software is 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. 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 DOC |
| software 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. |
| |
| DOC software is 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 number of companies around the world |
| provide commercial support for DOC software, however. |
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| DOC software is Y2K-compliant, as long as the underlying OS platform |
| is Y2K-compliant. Likewise, DOC software is compliant with the new US |
| daylight savings rule passed by Congress as "The Energy Policy Act |
| of 2005," which established new daylight savings times (DST) rules |
| for the United States that expand DST as of March 2007. Since DOC |
| software obtains time/date and calendaring information from operating |
| systems users will not be affected by the new DST rules as long as |
| they upgrade their operating systems accordingly. |
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| The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), CoSMIC(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. This license grants no permission to |
| call products or services derived from this source ACE(TM), TAO(TM), |
| CIAO(TM), or CoSMIC(TM), nor does it grant permission for the name |
| Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University to appear |
| in their names. |
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| If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions, |
| please let me know. |
| |
| Douglas C. Schmidt |
