== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article
> I received a call from the Tango representative yesterday saying that some
> developers expressed concern that SHOO's time library proposed submission to
> Phobos may have an "infraction" of the Tango BSD license. The word
> "infringement" was not used, though I think infraction and infringement mean 
> the
> same thing here.
> He expressed the idea that since SHOO was admittedly very familiar with the
> Tango time code, that it was not possible for his time code to be free of
> "taint" from the corresponding Tango code. He was satisfied only by my 
> agreement
> to block the inclusion of SHOO's time module in Phobos.
> The key point here is the Tango team regards it as impossible for someone
> familiar with the internals of a Tango module to make a non-infringing
> reimplementation of its interface.

This is worse than I imagined. So they were the bad guys all alone. Lars Ivar &
comp.- shame on you for this crap. The hell with Tango. It needs to die with D1.

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Gurney Halleck

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