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		amelius on Nov 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s... This is great work. I guess from a legal perspective this hinges on the idea that you can't copyright/patent an API. The graphical design and UX, however, can be copyrighted I suppose. I also wonder if it would be legally possible to do the same for iOS.

Someone on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

I think the technical problems are harder. AFAIK, you can’t run most services on iOS, so you would have to find creative ways to implement them.

Also, on iOS, it would be an (¿almost? Does the iOS UI have any open source parts?) complete reimplementation of the user space.

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