Attention GCJ devel team

Tue Apr 23 18:04:00 GMT 2002

Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
>I wrote a program similar to what you describe some time ago. It is called
>DeDoc and can be downloaded from
>http://freshmeat.net/redir/dedoc/1802/url_tgz/dedoc-0.12.tar.gz.
>It reads HTML (generated by javadoc from java source files) and writes
>source files for each class encountered. I don't know if anyone actually
>uses/used it...
>>The same question came up that time - is it legal to use code automaticly
>generated from Javadoc [in GPL programs]? I wrote RMS to ask about it,
>and he forwarded my email to Eben Moglen. I quote from the letters I
>received:
>
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.