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by AhtiK 4636 days ago
Thanks. Just to be clear, I appreciate the effort and do not say it was something illegal to do.

I was just wondering about theoretical consequences of cloning UI/tool of a successful company software with the reason of the tool/interface being too expensive.

If it's done for learning the technologies then it's "for educational purposes" and probably falls into another copyright use category that is more permissive.

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> I was just wondering about theoretical consequences of cloning UI/tool of a successful company software with the reason of the tool/interface being too expensive.

The UI was not cloned either :). The UI is a Scalatra template (Twirl) and a Twitter Bootstrap style. It could be customized in any possible way and look the user would wish, but so far the developers are concentrating on the basic features.