Re: [hibernate-dev] Quoting JPA specs

Hey, 2016-01-07 9:36 GMT+01:00 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad(a)gmail.com&gt;: Where do you know that from? Quoting copyrighted material is subject to "fair use" or similar rules in many countries (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use). Whether it's fair use or not depends on different factors, amongst them the length of the quoted text. I'd be more than surprised if quoting single sentences from a spec with several hundreds pages posed a problem. Most texts are protected by copyright automatically (provided they satisfy some requirements regarding originality, length etc.), so if there was such rule, quoting would effectively be impossible, which clearly is not the case. 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. Cheers, --Gunnar