Attention GCJ devel team
Nic Ferrier
nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk
Mon Apr 22 00:22:00 GMT 2002
Bryce McKinlay <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> writes:
> 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.
We had the same issue with ClasspathX and I think the result was that
it's not legal (sun have (c) on the javadoc produced text).
But I don't have any copy of an FSF mail so you may as well ask again.
However, such a tool would still be useful, just as a monitoring tool.
Nic
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