[Mono-list] perl script to generate class stubs from web documents

[Daniel Carrera]

That's very unfortunate.  I'm glad that this came up before contributing
anything.

This raises a question though:
Doesn't this copyright apply equally to an individual reading the
documentation and doing the convertion from documentation to stubbs by
hand?

Heck, according to this, just viewing the page is illegal.  Afterall,
reading it with a web browser involves the transmission, reproduction and
storage of the document.

What is the difference between downloading the document with Netscape,
versus some other user agent that I might write?

Is there anyone here who knows law and can give us a hand?

Daniel.

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Adam Treat wrote:

> Some additional information:
>
> >From http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm
>
> "NOTICE SPECIFIC TO DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE.
>  Permission to use Documents (such as white papers, press releases,
> datasheets and FAQs) from the Services is granted, provided that (1) the
> below copyright notice appears in all copies and that both the copyright
> notice and this permission notice appear, (2) use of such Documents
> from the Services is for informational and non-commercial or personal
> use only and will not be copied or posted on any network computer or
> broadcast in any media, and (3) no modifications of any Documents are
> made.  ... Use for any other purpose is expressly prohibited by law,
> and may result in severe civil and criminal penalties. Violators will be
> prosecuted to the maximum extent possible. "
>
>
> From:
>  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/netstart/html/copybeta_nonconfidential.asp
>
> "Without limiting the rights under copyright, no part of this document
> may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or
> transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical,
> photocopying, recording, or otherwise), or for any purpose, without the
> express written permission of Microsoft Corporation."
>
> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 08:44 pm, you wrote:
> > AFAIK, Mono will _not_ except any code for Windows.Forms which is
> > automatically generated in whole or in part from Microsoft's
> > documentation!
>
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