计算机工程师和程序员长期以来依赖逆向工程来实现程序功能，而不直接复制受版权保护的原始代码。简单来说，就是在不侵犯版权的前提下“模仿”软件的行为和功能。过去，这种做法通常遵循所谓的“洁净房间（clean room）”原则：由完全不接触原始代码的人重新实现功能，以确保生成的新代码不会构成原作的衍生作品。

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Boston and Cambridge, Mass., December 1, 2014 -- The Broad Institute, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Editas Medicine have entered into a worldwide license agreement ...

[Flameeyes] has heard complaints (and at times, he admits, has complained himself) about big companies not contributing improvements to projects they seem to find useful, or rolling their own ...