Demeter/Java
User Manual
Version 0.7

 
Geoff Hulten
Karl Lieberherr
Josh Marshall
Doug Orleans
Binoy Samuel
December 2, 1998



 
DRAFT -- Please do not distribute.

demeter@ccs.neu.edu

IMPORTANT NOTICE

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

In no event shall Northeastern University (NEU) be liable to any party for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of this software and its documentation, even if NEU has been advised of the possibility of such damage.

NEU specifically disclaims any warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The software provided hereunder is on an ``as is'' basis, and NEU has no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates, enhancements, or modifications.

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Copyright © 1996-1998 Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115-9959. All rights reserved. Copyright in the Demeter System and associated documents (``SOFTWARE'') is owned by Northeastern University. Any person is hereby authorized to view, copy, print, run, modify, and distribute SOFTWARE (without fee) subject to the following conditions:

1.

SOFTWARE must not be sold commercially. Generated code may be sold commercially, except code generated when SOFTWARE is compiled with SOFTWARE.

2.

Any copy of the SOFTWARE or portion thereof must include this copyright notice.

3.

Successful use of the SOFTWARE in commercial and research projects must be reported to with a brief description of the project and possibly with feedback on how to improve the tools. The reports will be posted in the Demeter interest file.

Note that any product, process or technology described in the SOFTWARE may be the subject of other Intellectual Property rights reserved by Northeastern University and are not licensed hereunder.

The Demeter System is developed at Northeastern University, Boston, in the College of Computer Science, by the Demeter Research Group with support from DARPA, NSF, IBM, Mettler Toledo, Xerox PARC, Citibank, SAIC and Mitsubishi.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE AT ANY TIME.

Summary: You can use the current Demeter System to produce products and sell them but you cannot sell the Demeter System or its derivative works. But you may redistribute them for free. You must report back your successful uses which will allow us to attract further funding for our project. For further information on intellectual property matters regarding Demeter contact lieber@ccs.neu.edu. See http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/NUDCopyright.html
for any changes or updates to this copyright notice.

Demeter

brought to you by the the efforts of

Ken Fox
Lars Hansen
Geoff Hulten
Karl Lieberherr
Josh Marshall
Doug Orleans
Johan Ovlinger
Kedar Patankar
Boaz Patt-Shamir
Binoy Samuel
Mike Theroux

based on work on the Demeter/C++ system by

Walter Hürsch
Karl Lieberherr
Ignacio Silva-Lepe
Cun Xiao