1 Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), and
3 ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), and CoSMIC(TM) (henceforth referred to as
4 "DOC software") are copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research
5 group at Washington University, University of California, Irvine, and
6 Vanderbilt University, Copyright (c) 1993-2006, all rights reserved.
7 Since DOC software is open-source, freely available software, you are
8 free to use, modify, copy, and distribute--perpetually and
9 irrevocably--the DOC software source code and object code produced from
10 the source, as well as copy and distribute modified versions of this
11 software. You must, however, include this copyright statement along with
12 any code built using DOC software that you release. No copyright
13 statement needs to be provided if you just ship binary executables of
14 your software products.
16 You can use DOC software in commercial and/or binary software releases
17 and are under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that
18 is built using DOC software. Note, however, that you may not do anything
19 to the DOC software code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming
20 authorship of the DOC software code, that will prevent DOC software from
21 being distributed freely using an open-source development model. You
22 needn't inform anyone that you're using DOC software in your software,
23 though we encourage you to let us know so we can promote your project in
24 the DOC software success stories.
26 The ACE, TAO, CIAO, and CoSMIC web sites are maintained by the DOC Group
27 at the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) and the Center
28 for Distributed Object Computing of Washington University, St. Louis for
29 the development of open-source software as part of the open-source
30 software community. By submitting comments, suggestions, code, code
31 snippets, techniques (including that of usage) and algorithms
32 (collectively ``Submissions''), submitters acknowledge that they have
33 the right to do so, that any such Submissions are given freely and
34 unreservedly, and that they waive any claims to copyright or ownership.
35 In addition, submitters acknowledge that any such Submission might
36 become part of the copyright maintained on the overall body of code that
37 comprises the DOC software. By making a Submission, submitter agree to
38 these terms. Moreover, submitters acknowledge that the incorporation or
39 modification of such Submissions is entirely at the discretion of the
40 moderators of the open-source DOC software projects or their designees.
42 Submissions are provided by the submitter ``as is'' with no warranties
43 whatsoever, including any warranty of merchantability, noninfringement
44 of third party intellectual property, or fitness for any particular
45 purpose. In no event shall the submitter be liable for any direct,
46 indirect, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages,
47 including without limitation, lost profits, even if advised of the
48 possibility of such damages. Likewise, DOC software is provided as is
49 with no warranties of any kind, including the warranties of design,
50 merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose, noninfringement,
51 or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade practice. Washington
52 University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University, their employees, and
53 students shall have no liability with respect to the infringement of
54 copyrights, trade secrets or any patents by DOC software or any part
55 thereof. Moreover, in no event will Washington University, UC Irvine, or
56 Vanderbilt University, their employees, or students be liable for any
57 lost revenue or profits or other special, indirect and consequential
60 DOC software is provided with no support and without any obligation on
61 the part of Washington University, UC Irvine, Vanderbilt University,
62 their employees, or students to assist in its use, correction,
63 modification, or enhancement. A number of companies around the world
64 provide commercial support for DOC software, however.
66 DOC software is Y2K-compliant, as long as the underlying OS platform is
67 Y2K-compliant. Likewise, DOC software is compliant with the new US
68 daylight savings rule passed by Congress as "The Energy Policy Act of
69 2005," which established new daylight savings times (DST) rules for the
70 United States that expand DST as of March 2007. Since DOC software
71 obtains time/date and calendaring information from operating systems
72 users will not be affected by the new DST rules as long as they upgrade
73 their operating systems accordingly.
75 The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), CoSMIC(TM), Washington University,
76 UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University, may not be used to endorse or
77 promote products or services derived from this source without express
78 written permission from Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt
79 University. Further, products or services derived from this source may
80 not be called ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(TM), or CoSMIC(TM) nor may the name
81 Washington University, UC Irvine, or Vanderbilt University appear in
82 their names, without express written permission from Washington
83 University, UC Irvine, and Vanderbilt University.