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by eximius 1930 days ago
Isn't that, by definition, not a clean-room solution?
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‘Clean-room reverse engineering’ refers to the practice of having one person look at disassembled source code, spec sheets, actual behaviour, etc. of some program; describe that behaviour to a second person; and having the second person implement the described behaviour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Reverse_engineeri...

Ah, that's interesting! I didn't know that was a sufficient insulation of IP.
yea seems pretty easy then right, sounds like no source that is available for eyes to see is safe from 'clean room reverse engineering'