I have a question regarding GPL licence use.
I have released a library, which was written in one language uder GPL licence, and added my copyright notice.
Than another guy, took my library, transform it to another language, released it as GPL also, but deleted my copyright notice.
It is legal ???
IANAL.Having said that, copyright law, which is the basis of your power to limit distribution (force people to comply with your license) as an author of the work (your library in this case), only covers *experssion*, not ideas.
Therefore, if that other guy expressed your library in other means (another language in this case), he is within his full legal rights.
The GPL only has power because of copyright law and copyright law does not limit creating a new expression of the same idea
That still doesn't mean that other bloke isn't an arse. But that's another matter all together....
Hope this helps, Gilad.
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