> I see it differently. I look at it as if I had written this code myself, using this same approach. Look at the docs, look at the tests, look at the source, implement something that is interactively compatible but a very different approach.

I could look at a C to Zig compiler in the same way: I read some C code, write the equivalent Zig code, repeat.

The compiler could also do some circumlocutions in order to provide an apparently different approach.

> I'm aware of this because I'm pretty sure I _personally_ am one of the only ones who has ever attempted to document the packfile binary format: https://schacon.github.io/gitbook/7_the_packfile.html

gitformat-pack?

> If you find any code in Grit that is clearly line-for-line copied, please point it out

Please hunt for specific lines to disprove your bold claim.

> and I will replace it.

Assuming the current claims here, that would just be license washing with volunteer assistance.