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) 1993-2018, 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) 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
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