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Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
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this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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I think the fact that the maintainer is intimately knowledgeable about the original codebase is enough for it to not be a clean room re-implementation, no? That's what makes it "clean"