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Re:Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf] by dctoedt on Friday May 09, 2014 @06:46PM (#7723654)
> I wonder if you could clean-room most of this. ...

This was much discussed in the early days of the PC; if memory serves, it's basically the approach that was taken by the first successful cloner of the IBM PC BIOS [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Technologies#Cloning_th.... Also http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/33839.html

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