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The routine itself would be copyrighted, but someone should be able to make a clean room reimplementation of the original algorithm, assuming its not protected

The routine itself would be copyrighted, but someone should be able to make a clean room reimplementation of the original algorithm, assuming its not protected by patents. (IANAL)

WalterGR 11y ago
make a clean room reimplementation Which, as far as I understand it, could be someone posting a human-language description of the algorithm here (based on the blog post,) then ReactOS writing code based on that description. (IANAL.)
- ape4 11y ago
  Including the crazy constants.