Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM),
DAnCE(TM), and CoSMIC(TM)

ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE>(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 misappropriate
the DOC software code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming
authorship of the DOC software code, in a way 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.

The ACE, TAO, CIAO, DAnCE, 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. 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.

The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), DAnCE(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), DAnCE(TM), or CoSMIC(TM), nor does it grant permission for
the name Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University to
appear in their names.

If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions, please
let me know.

Douglas C. Schmidt
