Copyright and Licensing Information for RTZen



                        [1]RTZen is copyrighted by [2]Douglas C. Schmidt, Raymond Klefstad,
                        and their [3]research group at [4]University of California at Irvine,
                        Copyright (c) 2000-2001, all rights reserved. Since RTZen is
                        [5]open-source, [6]free software, you are free to use, modify, and
                        distribute the RTZen source code and object code produced from the
                        source, as long as you include this copyright statement along with
                        code built using RTZen.

                        In particular, you can use RTZen in proprietary software and are
                        under no obligation to redistribute any of your source code that is
                        built using RTZen. Note, however, that you may not do anything to
                        the RTZen code, such as copyrighting it yourself or claiming
                        authorship of the RTZen code, that will prevent RTZen from being
                        distributed freely using an open-source development model.

                        RTZen 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, RTZen is provided with no support
                        and without any obligation on the part of the University of
                        California at Irvine, its employees, or students to assist in its
                        use, correction, modification, or enhancement.

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

                        The [1]RTZen web site is maintained by the [3]Distributed Object
                        Computing Laboratory of the University of California at Irvine for
                        the development of open-source software as part of the
                        [5]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 [1]RTZen 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 RTZen projects or their designees.