std.xml should just go

[Tomek Sowiński]

spir spir napisał:

> > You probably shouldn't look at the source.
> > I dunno about the interface (documentation) - it's certainly not illegal to take
> > inspiration from it, but maybe then people will again claim that source was
> > stolen.. but when you claim that you haven't looked at the source it may be ok..
> >
> > Maybe a clean-room approach is possible: Somebody else looks at the source and
> > documents what it does and how it does that (without copying anything) and you
> > could use that documentation for your own code.
> > If you don't want to clone it but have questions about how they did something
> > specific you could just ask here and (hopefully) someone looks it up and
> > explains it to you.  
> 
> Mamma mia! In what world are we supposed to live!?

My thoughts exactly. I mean, as soon as Jonathan mentioned Tango's XML, I knee-jerkingly got paranoid and asked about legality of even reading about it to stay clear. I only hope having heard about it is legal.

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Tomek