Peter Makholm <peter@makholm.net>: > Would it be posibble to make a clean-room implementation of the > compatibility layer? And why would that be necessary? As far as I know, if you're not using their code, then you don't have to worry about their copyright. When I read about people doing a "clean-room implementation" it's usually to avoid problems with trade secrets and NDAs rather than anything to do with copyright. Edmund