Heya, post author here. I think I was just wrong about this assertion. I got into a discussion with a copyright lawyer over on Bluesky[^1] after I wrote this an

Heya, post author here. I think I was just wrong about this assertion. I got into a discussion with a copyright lawyer over on Bluesky[^1] after I wrote this and came away reasonably convinced that this wouldn’t be a valid example of a clean room implementation. [^1]: https://bsky.app/profile/mergesort.me/post/3mihhaliils2y https://bsky.app/profile/mergesort.me/post/3mihhaliils2y