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The ideas can be implemented in a competing program as long as the developers do not copy the original expression.{{sfn|Yusuf|2008|pp=51-52}}

With a [[clean room design]] approach one team of engineers derives a functional specification from the original code,

and then a second team uses that specification to design and builtbuild the new code.

This was piloted in the mid-1980s by a team from [[Phoenix Technologies]] to produce a [[BIOS]] functionally equivalent to that of the [[IBM Personal Computer]] without infringing on IBM's copyright.{{sfn|Schwartz|2001}}