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Because it’s written in an entirely different language, which makes this whole point moot


Surely if I took a program written in Python and translated it line for line into JavaScript, that wouldn't allow me to treat it as original work. I don't see how this solves the problem, except very incrementally.


but it’s not a line for line translation. it is a functionality for functionality translation, and sometimes very differently.




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