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Re: Attention GCJ devel team
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- To: Oskar Liljeblad <oskar at osk dot mine dot nu>
- Cc: James Williams <james_williams at optusnet dot com dot au>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:57:15 +1200
- Subject: Re: Attention GCJ devel team
- References: <001e01c1e797$c91c2f30$c47831d2@computer> <3CC38926.90804@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> <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.