Re: [hibernate-dev] Quoting JPA specs

Hi, > > The JPA specs are under copyright, so instead of quoting we should just > > provide the section and > > make a summary in our own wording. > > I don't think that's needed, in addition it'd do more harm than good. > The specific wording makes a difference, summarizing it in your own > words is already an interpretation which may or may not alter the > exact semantics. +1 I would have the same fear. As Gunnar is saying, the specific wording might be important. For what it's worth, I quote quite regularly from the Bean Validation spec when answering Validator/Bean Validation questions. As long as you make clear where it is coming from, I don't see a problem here.