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Reading and remembering code is allowed under all the OSS licenses. It's the reproduction of the code that's restricted. The blurry question is always: how much does an expression have to change between it being classified as an exact reproduction, a derivative work, and a novel work?

CoPilot would definitely fail the clean room test, though



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