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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) 1993-2009, 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.
+
+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.
+
+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. 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.
+
+If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions,
+please let me know.
+
+Douglas C. Schmidt