The Java CoG Kit is distributed under the Globus Toolkit Public License (GTPL).
We kindly ask you to notify us about projects that you develop with the help of the Java CoG Kit. This will allow us to keep track of the use of the Java CoG Kit, as this directly affects our ability to motivate additional coding activities. Please, be so kind to send an e-mail to gregor@mcs.anl.gov with the following description:
Project name:In case you like to cite the Java CoG Kit in your papers, we recommend that you use the following paper:
Gregor von Laszewski, Ian Foster, Jarek Gawor, Peter Lane, A Java Commodity Grid Kit, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pages 643-662, Volume 13, Issue 8-9, 2001. http://www.globus.org/cog/java/
We also would like to be notified about your publications that involve the use of the Java CoG Kit, as this will help us to document its usefulness. We like to feature links to these articles, with your permission, on our Web site.
We distribute a number of other libraries with the Java CoG Kit. These libraries come with their own licences. We strongly encourage you to inspect these licenses. The can be found in the ``lib'' directories of the Java CoG Kit.
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