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		shared4you on Aug 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plagiarism of my open source app ChatSecure If he has modified even a single line of your source code, he is free to re-license the entire product as a whole under his own license. As long as your name / copyright notice is preserved in the source code / binary, there is nothing illegal about this. How else do you think GPL projects incorporate BSD-code ?

microtonal on Aug 14, 2012 [–]

If he has modified even a single line of your source code, he is free to re-license the entire product as a whole under his own license.

Actually, that's not true. In many legislations a minimum amount of originality is required copyright to apply.

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