Usage of RFC documentation for Javadoc

[Wolfgang Baer]

Hi all,

working on the javax.print namespace and also starting
with the internals I found that the javadoc of the
Java Print Service API is mostly a word by word copy
from the RFC documents of IPP 1.1 (RFC 2910, 2911).

As I also look at the specification source my documentation
(although I try to explain in my own words) will almost every
time sound the same like the one from SUN.

So the question comes to my mind if we also can use or
maybe quote from the RFC documents in our javadocs.
This would make documentation easier and as its the
specification also correct in every detail.

For your convenience I attached the full copyright
statement of the RFC documents.

Opinions ?

Wolfgang



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