Conforming in a sentence as an adjective

To what would the implementations be conforming, if not a spec?

Hence the production of derivative non-conforming programs from our source, whether called Shen, Shin, Shine or Shoo, is barred by the license.

You are always a sheep in some regard; non-conforming in every regard is an exhausting and worthless endeavor.

Somewhere, someone is depending on that and they will be angry when your rewrite, perfectly spec conforming though it may be, doesn't work the way it used to work.

And even if Google manages to keep their implementation airtight and standards-conforming, what happens when NaCl takes off and Microsoft takes a crack at it?

They do an awful lot of legwork talking to various implementations and trying to build consensus on actually conforming with the standard and all its edge cases.

We've spent so long trying to be the anti-mainstream-business that it's no longer about letting people do what they want, and about conforming to the "cool software shop" cultural meme.

I considered forking this, but how about doing the bastards one better?You've already got a client library written--why not go ahead and post up a conforming backend as well?

In fact, if they actually are great people you'll be courting them, not the other way around, and they'll be bringing their own ideas to the table instead of sweating over whether they're conforming to your preconceptions.

Conforming definitions

adjective

adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion)

See also: conformist