Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Dalibor, > > On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 11:02 -0800, Dalibor Topic wrote: > >>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. > > > O, come on. You know what Tim means. Normally books don't allow copying > of their text for arbitrary purposes. You cannot just copy large chunks > of descriptions or example code from books without the agreement of the > publisher first. The main point is that the javadoc as published isn't > really a spec (even if some people call it that way). You do need real > books that describe what the stuff does that we want to be compatible > with. In the end it only matters what real programs do and real programs > are based on real descriptions of the core library as described in these > books.
Yep. Sorry for the confusion, it was a misunderstanding on my side. :( cheers, dalibor topic
