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 Originally Posted by GMMan
Won't you be effected by the copyrighted work, making your "cleanroom" version looking suspiciously similar?
That just depends on the skill and creativity of the developer. Even big names like Microsoft and Google have had times where their devs turned to "reverse lazyneering" rather than code from scratch. Some have been caught, some haven't, but when you have a different syntax style and app structure with your own improvements to the algorithms and UI, you can pass it off as your own work.
If the original dev used anything generic that can be found in a web-based tutorial, the copycat is even safer.
There's no absolutes here, what's true in one case doesn't always carry over to the next.. The situation is too fluid, with many variables to consider before saying yes or no...
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