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It would probably be the usual clean room reverse engineering rules: one guy describes the assets to be cloned, and then another guy who has never seen the originals uses that documentation to create the replacements.

Once you've seen the originals, you're contaminated and no longer suitable for the role of doing the replacement work.


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