Also even if it is a ground up rewrite, the look and feel still matters. Try creating a 1:1 dupe o...

Closi • yesterday at 6:19 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Also even if it is a ground up rewrite, the look and feel still matters.

Try creating a 1:1 dupe of a Hermes bag or a Rolex and see how their legal team reacts (even if you call it an OpenBirk)

20k • yesterday at 7:58 PM

Clean room reimplementations of software projects have been tested in court and are legally fine

anthk • yesterday at 7:06 PM

- OpenArena

- Chip's Challange and custom levels pack

- Freedoom+Blasmepher for Doom/Heretic

- LibreQuake

- Supertux2

- Oolite

- Kgoldminner/XScavenger with level sets

- Frozen Bubble

- Any X11/console/9front sokoban clone. Everyone reuses the same level set over and over.

anthk • yesterday at 6:47 PM

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