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Originally Posted by BigIg
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?
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well the thing is when you port a code to another language lets say Visual Basic to C# you will have to change lots of the code as many things have to be written in a whole different way... anyways i think you will have to write somewhere in your code a text saying that is a port of another public open source code. but am not sure of it.
one thing am sure tho.... millions of C/C++ close source apps being released as freeware or shareware contains lots of copy pasted code and thatīs a fact.. only few people actually sit and do things by there own.. most of the coders do look at others code and write there things based on it... C/C++ is the most copy pasted language and thatīs for sure....
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