7 Legal notices
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ACE
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, TAO
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, CIAO
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, and CoSMIC
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ACE
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, TAO
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, CIAO
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, and CoSMIC
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(henceforth referred to as “DOC software”) are copyrighted
by Douglas C. Schmidt
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and his research group
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at Washington University
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, University of
California
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, Irvine, and Vanderbilt University
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, Copyright
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1993–2005, all rights reserved.
Since DOC software is open-source, free 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 code built using DOC software.
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
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know so we can
promote your project in the DOC software success stories
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.
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. Moreover, 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
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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.
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.
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, TAO
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, CIAO
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, and CoSMIC
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web sites are maintained by the DOC Group
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at the
Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)
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and the Center for Distributed Object Computing
of Washington University, St. Louis
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for the development of open-source software as part of the
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