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

saagarjha · 2025-04-22T10:08:53 1745316533

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 exists.

palata · 2025-04-22T10:23:13 1745317393

Where did I say that you copy it? I used the words "you rewrite it from scratch", not "you copy it".

saagarjha · 2025-04-22T10:46:03 1745318763

That's a copy. Read the Wikipedia article I linked and it explains what people do to demonstrate they're not infringing.

palata · 2025-04-22T14:08:45 1745330925

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.