Attention GCJ devel team

[James Williams]

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.