Viktor

>It's highly unlikely that function names or namespaces
>are copyrighted.

I too think so. Otherwise clones to the other compilers
would not been in existance.

<<<
This is rather a design and package management issue.
If you use original Xbase++ names, you create a
potential name collision with another tool trying to implement
the same thing. In practice this could be a problem if two
overlapping subsets of these functions are implemented
by two competing libs. Users won't be able to use both
at the same time. A likely scenario for this is when
user has some local partial implementations of some
XPP classes, and will now experience collisions.
In the case of GTWVG this doesn't seem very likely.
>>>

I do not think anybody has done so far on this front.
It is only GTWVG which is implementing XbpParts.
But nevertheless, this is not a big issue, a simple .ch
does the trick.

<<<
I'd personally do the renaming after GTWVG is proven
to be working properly, now it seem a bit early yet.
>>>

What you mean by "proven" ? For the last few years
my applns are in production with GTWVG. 
BTW, a simple Xbase++ program has been submitted
to Harbour and it ran flawless just with few changes.
If anybody is interested to look into that code, speak up.

<<<
Much more important would be to resolve the violation
of WVT* and WIN*() namespaces in GTWVG, and
last but not least the build-breaker MSVC GPF, and
the meaningful warnings. [ posted on the list a while
ago. ]
>>>

WVT* namespace cannot be changed, and it need not be.
WIN* namespace is under transition as we discussed earlier.
I have fixed most of MSVC warnings, but do not know 
how to fix GPF as I am not a user of MSVC. How I can 
have MSVC with bulk of the downloads it attracts?
Or cn you provide more info where it crashes?

Regards
Pritpal Bedi

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