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BigIg · June 4th, 2009

I was discussing this with someone but neither of us were sure of the answer.

If you were to port a piece of open source software to another language, i.e. Visual Basic to C#, would it still have to be released under the same license as the original software, since is technically contains none of the original code?

June 4th, 2009	#1 (permalink)
BigIg I tell you what. Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ohio, USA Posts: 2,267	If you were to completely port a program to another language... I was discussing this with someone but neither of us were sure of the answer. If you were to port a piece of open source software to another language, i.e. Visual Basic to C#, would it still have to be released under the same license as the original software, since is technically contains none of the original code?