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Could there be any legal trouble for making a clone of Photoshop?

• xeromal 4y ago
  Photopea has been ongoing for quite some time. I've thought the same but maybe adobe doesn't care
  • rolisz 4y ago
    And not only that, but as far as I know the solo dev behind Photopea has been contacted by the Photoshop team to work together on some format. Unfortunately, i can't find the quote right now.
• mixmastamyk 4y ago
  Is it an exact copy? Or just another image editor?
  • xsmasher 4y ago
    Gimp is an image editor, but not a "photoshop clone" - a lot of interfaces and features are different. Photopha is a very near clone; all of my "muscle memory" from photoshop works fine in Photopea, including must keyboard shortcuts. Everything is where I expect it to be. I don't think those arrangements of features are copyrightable, though.
• rikroots 4y ago
  Photopea has been mentioned several times on HN. When this question was raised before, I think the answer was that the layout of Photoshop is not protected by copyright, thus the Photopea author is within his rights to use it as inspiration for his product.