Is D right for me?

[retard]

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:35:03 -0700, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010 04:08:13 Simen kjaeraas wrote:
>> Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote:
>> > Except that copying Tango is taboo. We want to avoid any possible
>> > accusation of
>> > copying Tango's code or design. There have been issues in the past
>> > where Tango
>> > devs thought that we might be doing that, and we just don't want to
>> > risk any
>> > sort of problems with the Tango folks. So, whatever we put in Phobos,
>> > we do it
>> > without looking at Tango.
>> 
>> You know, we might consider asking them for permission. That way, there
>> should be no problems.
> 
> That can be done, to be sure, but we definitely can't just look at their
> code - or even API - and create something similar, and from what I
> recall, most cases of trying to get permission have a been a problem
> (primarily due to there being multiple authors, I think). If there's
> only one author for the stream code in Tango, that would be easier.
> 
> Regardless, the point is that we can't just go and look at the Tango API
> and use it to give ourselves ideas on what to do with Phobos.

I doubt the copyright law can protect API definitions. In that case 
projects like Wine (winehq.org) couldn't exist. What do you think?