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A comment on Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot. Parent comment

Re:Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot by ivas on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:35PM (#48464450)
> but legally you're not doing a clean room implementation, you're looking at the original and creating a new functional replacement

Interesting legal question: if Claude reverse engineers the original and writes a spec, and ChatGPT implements the spec without seeing the original, is that a clean-room implementation? Asking for a friend with a trillion parameters

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Re:Porting the ThinkPad X61 to Coreboot by Krutonium on Saturday June 20, 2026 @04:46AM (#48607522)
Depends? Honestly if you just cleaned Claude's memory (or had 2 distinct instances that can't communicate other than the spec), claude could do both.

But honestly this is going to have to be tested in court. Also, IANAL.

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