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* Re: Attention GCJ devel team
@ 2002-04-23 22:29 James Williams
  2002-04-23 22:42 ` Bryce McKinlay
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: James Williams @ 2002-04-23 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: java

Bryce McKinnley wrote:

>    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.


For myself I'm not convinced that generating the javadoc would violate any
copyright for the following reasons.

1.  deprecation is a part of the specification and deprecation is part of
the javadoc, so how can the javadoc be excluded?
2.  In the license that I agreed to Sun granted me a license for the
specification (which includes all of the javadocs) and nowhere within the
license does it state that I don't have the freedom to recreate the javadoc.

The tool does give you the option to NOT generate the javadoc.





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2002-04-21 22:22 ` Attention GCJ devel team Bryce McKinlay
2002-04-22  0:22   ` Nic Ferrier
2002-04-22  1:27     ` James Williams
2002-04-22 11:03     ` Raif S. Naffah
2002-04-23  7:25   ` Oskar Liljeblad
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