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by antientropic 3910 days ago
Studying GPL'ed source code does not "taint" anything. You're absolutely allowed to do that. If you're really concerned about subconsciously copying elements of the original into your implementation, you could let somebody else study the original and write a spec.
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Studying GPL'ed source code does not "taint" anything.

This is far from my area of expertise, but lawyers smarter than me about these things disagree.

That's what I had people do.