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The app has been forked, renamed and published, is this normal? #34

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tecufanujacu opened this issue Aug 24, 2017 · 1 comment
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@tecufanujacu
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Your app for android has been forked, renamed and published on the play store as Super Mobile Phone Locator, is this normal? Shouldn't be release the source code?

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If the code used in SMPL is derived or identical from the ODM source code, the GPLv3 requires the source code to be made available - at least upon request. It is also not allowed to re-license GPLv3 code without prior consent with all the copyright holders of the project.

If the code used in SMPL is written from scratch, not using any code fragments derived from ODM at all, then they're allowed to do what they do.

For the ODM project, I would also recommend considering to switch to AGPLv3. Which even enforces service providers using the ODM server side components to make their source code available. That is generally the main difference between GPL and AGPL.

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