Not sure if even your "mechanical translation" condition works, though certainly tighter. What if I hire a human to do the translation? If even that would viol

Not sure if even your "mechanical translation" condition works, though certainly tighter. What if I hire a human to do the translation? If even that would violate the agreement, then the "original written language" of every program is the plain language specification document (that is, if you write one). Heck, XCode has project templates that "write" starter code for you. So, technically, no iPhone developer "wrote" every single line of copyrighted code. .. and (someone else mentioned) copy pasted public domain code, apps ported from other platforms, are all ruled out. Basically, it seems that this clause reeks of a lack of understanding of the nature of software.