Attention GCJ devel team

Raif S. Naffah raif@fl.net.au
Mon Apr 22 11:03:00 GMT 2002


did the original poster mean when saying "generate ... from javadoc
specifications"

a. generate the code from the _output_ of the JavaDoc tool, or
b. generate the code from .java files (source code) adorned with JavaDoc
tags?

if it's the latter would that still be legally challenging?


cheers;
rsn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nic Ferrier" <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>
To: "Bryce McKinlay" <bryce@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>
Cc: "James Williams" <james_williams@optusnet.com.au>; <java@gcc.gnu.org>;
<gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: Attention GCJ devel team


> 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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