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I agree. But you gotta start somewhere. The first step is to just recreate the components.

Feel free to contribute with your ideas and add some neat CSS3 animations to the framework.

Have you looked into the polymer elements http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/? I'm not sure if it would be against the license, but in principle they have a complete implementation of the material design that could be extracted as a separate css-only framework.

Polymer is licensed under BSD so it shouldn't be hard at all to do that and comply.

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