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by worldsayshi 89 days ago
If clean-room re-implementations are allowed to bypass copyright/licenses (software) copyright is dead in general?
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justcool393 89 days ago
well no, (clean room )reimplementations of APIs have done since time immemorial. copyright applies to the work itself. if you implement the functionality of X, software copyright protects both!

patents protect ideas, copyright protects artistic expressions of ideas

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LtWorf 89 days ago
The problem is that, is it clean room if you read all of the code in advance?
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