The following copyright notice applies to SOS and RPC, from which SOSS was
derived:
         ---------------  Begin Copyright Notice ----------------

     The LBL-SOS system is copyright (C) 1989, Regents of the University of
California.  Anyone may reproduce "LBL-SOS", the software in this distribution,
in whole or in part, provided that:
(1)  Any copy or redistribution of LBL-SOS must show the Regents of the
     University of California, through its Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, as the
     source, and must include this notice;
(2)  Any use of this software must reference this distribution, state that the
     software copyright is held by the Regents of the University of California,
     and that the software is used by their permission.
It is acknowledged that the U.S. Government has rights in LBL-SOS under
contract DE-AC03-765F00098 between the U.S. Department of Energy and the
University of California.

     LBL-SOS is provided as a professional academic contribution for joint
exchange.  Thus it is experimental, is provided "as is", with no warranties of
any kind whatsoever, no support, promise of updates, or printed documentation.
The Regents of the University of California shall have no liability with
respect to the infringement of copyrights by LBL-SOS, or any part thereof.

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     It should be noted that the Sun RPC code in the "rpc" directory is
copyright Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is provided here as a modified version of
the Sun code that was distributed by Sun to the Usenet, comp.sources.unix
bulletin board.  The Sun code contains the following notice:

          "Sun RPC is a product of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and is provided for
     unrestricted use provided that this legend is included on all tape media
     and as a part of the software program in whole or in part.  Users may copy
     or modify Sun RPC without charge, but are not authorized to license or
     distribute it to anyone else except as part of a product or program
     developed by the user.
          Sun RPC is provided as is with no warranties of any kind including
     the warranties of design, merchantability and fitness for a particular
     purpose, or arising from a course of dealing, usage or trade practice.