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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by worldsayshi on Thursday March 19, 2026 @12:21PM (#47441909)
If clean-room re-implementations are allowed to bypass copyright/licenses (software) copyright is dead in general?
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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by justcool393 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:23PM (#47443677)
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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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by LtWorf on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:07PM (#47448380)
The problem is that, is it clean room if you read all of the code in advance?
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