<s>
ORBit	B-Application
is	O
a	O
CORBA	B-Architecture
2.4	O
compliant	O
Object	B-General_Concept
Request	I-General_Concept
Broker	I-General_Concept
(	O
ORB	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
features	O
mature	O
Ada	B-Language
,	O
C	B-Language
,	O
C++	B-Language
and	O
Python	B-Language
bindings	O
,	O
and	O
less	O
developed	O
bindings	O
for	O
Perl	B-Language
,	O
Lisp	B-Language
,	O
Pascal	B-Application
,	O
Ruby	B-Language
,	O
and	O
Tcl	B-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
of	O
the	O
code	O
is	O
distributed	O
under	O
the	O
LGPL	B-Application
license	I-Application
,	O
although	O
the	O
IDL	B-General_Concept
compiler	O
and	O
utilities	O
use	O
the	O
GPL	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
ORBit	B-Application
was	O
originally	O
written	O
to	O
serve	O
as	O
middleware	B-General_Concept
for	O
the	O
GNOME	B-Application
project	O
,	O
but	O
has	O
seen	O
use	O
outside	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
