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by akavel 1040 days ago
Hmm, IANAL, though I seem to believe there tends to be a question of "have you seen the original code before writing your clone" - which presumes that you still risk copying some code - or are you doing a "cleanroom reimplementation" without ever at all seeing the original code, just basing purely on a specification of the original, ideally written by someone else. As long as it's not pristine cleanroom, I think it's potentially murky territory.
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Done, merged a patch to clarify that it is absolutely the latter: this is an implementation from scratch with completely different rendering passes, design and SVG output structures.

Does that help?

https://github.com/google/typograms/commit/bdd329eaec7497b96...

It does, thanks! <3