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Make it clear that the DLPack protocol is *not* part of the array API standard #192

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See the discussion around numpy/numpy#19083 (comment). We should make it clear that any library is free to implement __dlpack__ and __dlpack_device__, and from_dlpack() can return a non-array-API-complaint object.

Ideally, the second half of this page https://data-apis.org/array-api/latest/design_topics/data_interchange.html should not live in the array API standard, but instead in DLPack's website so that we can simply link to it. Unfortunately DLPack doesn't seem to plan on creating a website in the near future, so perhaps we can add a big warning mark during the rewriting planned in #185?

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