Attention GCJ devel team

[Bryce McKinlay]

James Williams wrote:

>I am currently working on a tool that will generate class stubs complete
>with javadoc from javadoc specifications.  In your FAQ a person
>mentioned that "Considering that new Java APIs come out every week, it's
>going to be impossible to track everything."  I believe the tool I am
>developing may reduce this development challenge for you substantially.
>
>From my perspective the value of this would be that when a new specification 
>came out, the api converter could be run providing a clean framework 
>complete with all the new and deprecated api's and then the intergrator 
>could copy the existing code from the current libgcj implementation into 
>the new framework.
>

This sounds like an interesting and useful tool. However, I don't know 
whether or not we can, from a legal perspective, generate code 
directly/automatically from Javadocs. I suspect we'd have to ask the FSF 
legal people whether or not this is safe.

regards

Bryce.