From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10968 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2005 03:32:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 10946 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Nov 2005 03:32:14 -0000 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (HELO xproxy.gmail.com) (66.249.82.201) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:32:14 +0000 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s15so1039079wxc for ; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:32:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.210.17 with SMTP id i17mr1295902qbg; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:32:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.192.16 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:32:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4c60c7920511121932k195c6515mad4a7f281dc189f2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 03:32:00 -0000 From: Greg Orlowski To: mauve-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: legal question about writing mauve test cases MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-SW-Source: 2005-q4/txt/msg00028.txt.bz2 Hi, Is it legal to use the reflection api's w/ sun's jdks to generate lists of method signatures and then compare them to gnu-classpath's method signatures as a reference-point from which to develop test cases for mauve? Does using the reflection capabilities of java with sun's libraries constitute reading source code (legally)? I've been doing some of this anyway just to be able to compare gnu-classpath & sun's implementation. If it's legal, I'd like to take some diffs of output from running reflection methods as a reference for some test cases. I'd like to contribute to classpath, but I'll be using sun's tools extensively at my job, and I'm worried that I'll be tainted by doing so. thanks for any information you can give me on this! -Greg