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Absolutely not. How would it be infringement to write your own code from scratch?

• saagarjha 2y ago
  If you read someone else's code and copy it down, then you are infringing on it. There's a reason why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design exists.
  • palata 2y ago
    Where did I say that you copy it? I used the words "you rewrite it from scratch", not "you copy it".
    • saagarjha 2y ago
      That's a copy. Read the Wikipedia article I linked and it explains what people do to demonstrate they're not infringing.
      • palata 2y ago
        Because people spend a lot of time making sure that they can prove that they did not infringe copyright does not prove anything here. It just says that some people put a lot of effort into making sure that they could easily prove that they didn't infringe copyright.