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


