Licensing Terms for ACE/TAO

Copyright and Licensing Information for ACE(TM) and TAO(TM)

The ACE ORB source code is copyrighted by Dr. Douglas C Schmidt and his research group at Washington University, University of California - Irvine and Vanderbilt University. The actual terms are reproduced on the CD. TAO is made available by means of an open source model. TAO may be used without the payment of development license or run time fees. TAO source code may be made available along, with any added value products, which utilize TAO. This distribution contains not only the source code for ACE and TAO, in consonance with the spirit of open source practices, but also added value products such as installation scripts, object code for debugging and binaries for commonly used platforms. These are referred to as the software programs. OCI is the authorized distributor of TAO products and services. The use of the ACE, The ACE ORB and TAO trade or service marks is by permission of Washington University.

Warranty

ACE and TAO are provided as is, with no warranties of any kind, including the warranties of design, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade practice. Moreover, ACE and TAO are provided with no support and without any obligation on the part of Washington University, its employees, or students to assist in its use, correction, modification, or enhancement.

Year 2000

Both ACE and TAO have been designed to be Y2K-compliant, as long as the underlying OS platform is Y2K-compliant.

Liability

Washington University, its employees, and students shall have no liability with respect to the infringement of copyrights, trade secrets or any patents by ACE and TAO or any part thereof. Moreover, in no event will Washington University, its employees, or students be liable for any lost revenue or profits or other special, indirect and consequential damages.

Trademarks

The names ACE(TM), TAO(TM), and Washington University may not be used to endorse or promote products or services derived from this source without express written permission from Washington University. Further, products or services derived from this source may not be called ACE(TM) or TAO(TM), nor may the name Washington University appear in their names, without express written permission from Washington University.

Copyright and Licensing Information for GPERF

GPERF is a standalone software program. GPERF generates perfect hash functions for lookups based on a set of key words when the key words are known in advance. They are called perfect hash functions because only a single access into the data structure is needed in order to perform a lookup. When the set of IDL operations is known in advanced TAO uses the perfect hash functions generated by GPERF in order to perform the operation lookup in constant time. Similarly servant lookups can be done, if the set of servants is known in advanced.

GPERF was originally developed by Professor Douglas Schmidt. Professor Schmidt subsequently signed the copyright over to the Free Software Foundation, causing gperf to be licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). The FSF still maintains that version of gperf. When perfect hashing was added as an option to TAO, gperf was selected to provide that function. It was extended and enhanced to meet the more demanding needs of TAO and a derived version was placed in the ACE application libraries. When using TAO under certain circumstances you may elect to use that version of gperf, which is part of the ACE distribution of examples and optional programs. Both the current FSF gperf and the ACE gperf are based on the original implementation. Since the ACE gperf is derived from the original GPL'ed version, it too is licensed under the GPL.

The following terms are found in the source files for gperf:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

To receive a copy and more information about the GNU General Public License write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA, or visit their web site www.gnu.ai.mit.edu.

Copyright and Licensing for Sun Products

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All Rights Reserved.

This notice applies to all files in this software distribution that were originally derived from SunSoft IIOP code. (Such files contain Sun Microsystems copyright notices).

This software product (LICENSED PRODUCT), implementing the Object Management Group's "Internet Inter-ORB Protocol", is protected by copyright and is distributed under the following license restricting its use. Portions of LICENSED PRODUCT may be protected by one or more U.S. or foreign patents, or pending applications.

LICENSED PRODUCT is made available for your use provided that you include this license and copyright notice on all media and documentation and the software program in which this product is incorporated in whole or part.

You may copy, modify, distribute, or sublicense the LICENCED PRODUCT without charge as part of a product or software program developed by you, so long as you preserve the functionality of inter-operating with the Object Management Group's "Internet Inter-ORB Protocol" version one. However, any uses other than the foregoing uses shall require the express written consent of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

The names of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates may not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the LICENSED PRODUCT as permitted herein.

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This product is protected by copyright and distributed under the following license restricting its use.

The Interface Definition Language Compiler Front End (CFE) is made available for your use provided that you include this license and copyright notice on all media and documentation and the software program in which this product is incorporated in whole or part. You may copy and extend functionality (but may not remove functionality) of the Interface Definition Language CFE without charge, but you are not authorized to license or distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or program developed by you or with the express written consent of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun").

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