Licensing and Copyright when Porting (Derivative Works)

licensing_copyright.txt

I've read quite a bit online.

I really don't want to pay a lawyer on FOSS license use or copyright when it has to do with open-source and Free Software.

My aims were to port some sofware licensed under GPLv2 to a different platform.


TLDR:

Include original Copyright license and disclaimer, and add your own copyright for the port/derivative.

http://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/2794/project-port-to-another-language-dealing-with-copyright-notices-when-using-ap/2795#2795?newreg=93677e403e5e4583a9996a38450215f5
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/324465/licensing-when-porting


No one actually cares... esp. in the homebrew scene.


A “derivative work” is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted.  A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a ''derivative work''.

That last line has a lot of synonyms each with different connotations.

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