|
|
|
Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM), TAO(TM), and CIAO(TM).
ACE(TM), TAO(TM) and CIAO(TM) are copyrighted by Douglas C. Schmidt and his research group at Washington University, University of California, Irvine, and Vanderbilt University Copyright (c) 1993-2003, all rights reserved. The Douglas C. Schmidt software is distributed in accordance with the following license agreement. Since ACE TAO CIAO are open-source, free software, you are free to use, modify, copy, and distribute--perpetually and irrevocably--the ACE TAO CIAO 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 code built using ACE TAO CIAO.
You can use ACE TAO CIAO in proprietary software and are under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is built using ACE TAO CIAO. Note, however, that you may not do anything to the ACE TAO CIAO code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming authorship of the ACE TAO CIAO code, that will prevent ACE TAO CIAO from being distributed freely using an open-source development model. You needn't inform anyone that you're using ACE TAO CIAO in your software, though we encourage you to let us know so we can promote your project in the ACE TAO CIAO success stories.
ACE TAO CIAO are 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. Moreover, ACE TAO CIAO are 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 provide commercial support for ACE and TAO, however. ACE, TAO and CIAO are Y2K-compliant, as long as the underlying OS platform is Y2K-compliant.
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 ACE TAO CIAO 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.
The ACE, TAO and CIAO web sites are maintained by the Center for Distributed Object Computing of Washington University 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, 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, which comprises the ACE, TAO and CIAO software. By making a submission, submitter agree to these terms. Furthermore, submitters acknowledge that the incorporation or modification of such submissions is entirely at the discretion of the moderators of the open-source ACE TAO CIAO projects or their designees.
The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), CIAO(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), or CIAO(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.
If you have any suggestions, additions, comments, or questions, please let me know (email: d.schmidt@vanderbilt.edu).
Douglas C. Schmidt
| Copyright © 2013 CA. All rights reserved. |
|