Tim Ellison wrote: > 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. > > > It's not a restriction on the dissemintation of the info in the books > that is limited, but copying verbatim a book's sample code into a test > suite or as an implementation of the class library is probably bad form. >
Full ACK. I am sorry for having misinterpreted your original comment to think it'd be about EULAs on printed books. cheers, dalibor topic
