Introduction

This is a cleanroom implementation of the Findbugs Annotations.

I started by taking the Javadoc of the findbugs annotations and added in some of the missing information from http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/manual/annotations.html

At no time did I look at the original Findbugs source code.

Rational

The Findbugs Annotations are really useful, however they are released under the LGPL license, which some people are banned from using due to corporate licensing policies.

Using the Findbugs annotations can be considered by some lawyers as static linking with those annotations (IANAL so I don't know if they are correct or not). If they are correct (and some might say it's a big if) then using the LGPL version of the annotations would make your code a "derivative work" (which is f*cking nuts because you should be able to just swap in this version now shouldn't you)

So, if you have some idiot lawyers who won't let you use Findbugs' annotations.jar, then side-step them and use this one and keep the bugs out of your code.