>>> "Rolf W. Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Is there a problem? (please reply privately if you don't want to
continue this on list)
Nic
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