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(( 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,
__20__.

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
