From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
To: Oskar Liljeblad <oskar@osk.mine.nu>
Cc: James Williams <james_williams@optusnet.com.au>,
java@gcc.gnu.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Attention GCJ devel team
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CC5F4DB.1070603@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020423124246.GA24351@oskar>
Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
>I wrote a program similar to what you describe some time ago. It is called
>DeDoc and can be downloaded from
>http://freshmeat.net/redir/dedoc/1802/url_tgz/dedoc-0.12.tar.gz.
>It reads HTML (generated by javadoc from java source files) and writes
>source files for each class encountered. I don't know if anyone actually
>uses/used it...
>
>The same question came up that time - is it legal to use code automaticly
>generated from Javadoc [in GPL programs]? I wrote RMS to ask about it,
>and he forwarded my email to Eben Moglen. I quote from the letters I
>received:
>
Thanks Oskar. I believe we can conclude from this that it is ok to use
automated tools to generate templates for implementing classes from
Javadocs, provided that it is only the member names and signatures that
are being copied and not the documentation itself.
regards
Bryce.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-23 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-19 4:52 James Williams
2002-04-21 22:01 ` Bryce McKinlay
2002-04-21 23:19 ` Nic Ferrier
2002-04-22 1:34 ` Raif S. Naffah
2002-04-23 6:23 ` Oskar Liljeblad
2002-04-23 17:12 ` Bryce McKinlay [this message]
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