> I've only got three words: first sale doctrine. Hi Dalibor,
IANAL but from the little I know on first sale doctrine (how little ? very little) it seems a bit of a gamble to cite it as a defence since it appears to be applied so arbitrarily. Regardless, I'm not sure *any* project would benefit from getting entangled in such a case. Something else to consider is that book example code is often not the best/most efficient way to accomplish a given task but has usually been carefully constructed to aid discussion of a number of key points that the author wishes to make. As Mark wrote, they help give a "more solid base" to reason from - they should not be taken as an answer or as an extension of a specification in themselves. My 2c anyway... Best regards, George Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/11/2005 19:02 Please respond to harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org To harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org cc Subject Re: Implementation comparisons On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:58:20PM +0000, Tim Ellison wrote: > > Luckily there are several in depth books about > > various parts of the core library. O'Reilly and Addison Wesley publish > > some very good titles. Since real programmers use these books and the > > examples they give they are often a more solid base to work from. > > At the risk of sounding boring, it is worth noting that the books' > material is usually copyrighted and licensed too -- so we have to be > careful not to copy examples from any reference material into Harmony's > implementation or test suites where the license is incompatible with the > ASL. Licenses in real, printed books? I've only got three words: first sale doctrine. cheers, dalibor topic
