Re: [Mono-dev] Current state of documentation?
Joshua Tauberer <[email protected]>
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(I'm taking my reply to mono-docs-list.) Brian Crowell wrote: >> Unless the ECMA docs have been released under an open-source-ish >> license, they're copyrighted and can't be 'imported' without permission >> from the copyright holder. I don't know if they're licensed at all. > > There's a fundamental problem here: Any documentation you could write > for the base classes must necessarily be a derivative work of the > original ECMA documentation. That position rests on a number of legal issues that aren't well resolved. Are method signatures derivative works? Are the entire class libraries (the Mono source code) derivative works? I don't think these questions have been resolved in U.S. courts. -- - Joshua Tauberer http://taubz.for.net "Unfortunately, we're having this discussion. It's too bad, because guess who listens to the discussion: the enemy." _______________________________________________ Mono-docs-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-docs-list