Re: SWING at OJE

[Nic Ferrier]

>>> "Rolf W. Rasmussen" <address@hidden> 05-Feb-01 8:42:38 PM >>>

>Yes, reverse-engineering is permitted in most countries 
>with sane laws.  However, I don't think you can claim 
>that you're making a clean-room  implementation at the 
>same time, unless you're deploying some kind of 
>double-blind scheme.

I don't think what Andrew's doing could be illegal in anyway. As far
as I udnerstand it he's simple generating the stubs of the files from
the public java docs.

I'm not aware of any legal restriction of parsing text in copyrighted
material.

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continue this on list)



Nic