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Almost likely you would be found guilty because the intent matters. It is easy to check that the generated code is much similar to the original code, and you surely had a reason to bypass the original license. The exact legal reasoning would vary but any reasonable laywer would recommend you to do not.

In the historic Google v. Oracle suit, the only actual code that was claimed to be copied was a trivial `rangeCheck` function, but Google's intent and other circumstances like the identical code structure and documentation made it much more complicated, and the final decision completely bypassed the copyrightability of APIs possibly for this reason.




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