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Re: Attention GCJ devel team
- From: "James Williams" <james_williams at optusnet dot com dot au>
- To: <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:36:57 +1000
- Subject: Re: Attention GCJ devel team
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.