[hibernate-dev] Quoting JPA specs

[Emmanuel Bernard]

On Thu 2016-01-07 11:21, Hardy Ferentschik wrote:
> 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.

That and Bean Validation is actually ASL :)