Hi,
I am an instructor working in an organization providing training on JDO. I am currently authoring a JDO 2 courseware. Would it be possible for me to grab some text, tables and graphics from the JDO spec or would that be a violation of copyright? I looked at the copyright information on the spec document and found the following (please see section (iii)) : License for Evaluation Purposes. Sun hereby grants you a fully-paid, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, limited license (without the right to sublicense), under Sun's applicable intellectual property rights to view, download, use and reproduce the Specification only for the purpose of internal evaluation. This includes (i) developing applications intended to run on an implementation of the Specification, provided that such applications do not themselves implement any portion(s) of the Specification, and (ii) discussing the Specification with any third party; and (iii) excerpting brief portions of the Specification in oral or written communications which discuss the Specification provided that such excerpts do not in the aggregate constitute a significant portion of the Specification. Looking at (iii) above, would I be allowed to use some portion of the text in the spec in the courseware? I can refer to the spec document at places I have used text directly from the spec itself. Things like state transition tables and graphics representing state transitions is an example of one of the things I would like to incorporate in the courseware. Please let me know. Thanks Karan singh malhi
