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Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), and 
CoSMIC(TM)
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) 1993-2006, 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.

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. By submitting comments, suggestions, code, code 
snippets, techniques (including that of usage) and algorithms 
(collectively ``Submissions''), 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 that 
comprises the DOC software. By making a Submission, submitter agree to 
these terms. Moreover, submitters acknowledge that the incorporation or 
modification of such Submissions is entirely at the discretion of the 
moderators of the open-source DOC software projects or their designees.

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), 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. Further, products or services derived from this source may 
not be called ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), or CoSMIC(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.