From ac036c5d5aa135b30c5cee986184e3cef304ba37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Fridrich=20=C5=A0trba?= <fridrich.strba@bluewin.ch>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:41:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] In legacyMode, don't use -sourcepath, unless
 excludePackageNames is not empty

---
 .../org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java  | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java
index 366f31092..d00714cf3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/javadoc/AbstractJavadocMojo.java
@@ -4603,7 +4603,8 @@ private void addJavadocOptions(
         }
 
         if (moduleSourceDir == null) {
-            if (!disableSourcepathUsage) {
+            if (!disableSourcepathUsage
+                    && (!legacyMode || (excludePackageNames != null && !excludePackageNames.isEmpty()))) {
                 addArgIfNotEmpty(
                         arguments,
                         "-sourcepath",