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Re-implementation has precedent in the open-source community, such as Wine's re-implementation of the Windows API and Mesa's open-source implementation of OpenGL/Vulkan drivers; legally, re-implementation itself is generally considered lawful as long as no copyrighted code or binary weights are directly copied.
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