[hibernate-dev] Quoting JPA specs

Hardy Ferentschik hardy at hibernate.org
Thu Jan 7 05:21:05 EST 2016


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.

--Hardy
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