If that code is not GPL2 and therefore the full package too, then that's a license infringement.
Wrapping GPL code in other code is generally only allowed when: 1. clean room reimplementation of the ideas (from what you say not the case), 2. the reused code has a clean API and can be easily be replaced by something else (does not seem to be the case either). Egon On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 at 17:18, Jiping Wang <jzw...@northwestern.edu> wrote: > Not to my understanding. The core codes (Fortran) from my package were > identically copied with only function name change in their package. If they > call functions or import functions from my package, that’s not an issue. > But instead they just copied my codes and made their package. > > From: Jianhong Ou, Ph.D. <jianhong...@duke.edu> > Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 10:15 AM > To: Jiping Wang <jzw...@northwestern.edu>, bioc-devel@r-project.org < > bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Question on GPL2 license copyright > Does that package import or depend on your package? > > From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Jiping > Wang <jzw...@northwestern.edu> > Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 11:03 AM > To: bioc-devel@r-project.org <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Subject: [Bioc-devel] Question on GPL2 license copyright > Hi, > > I have a general question about Bioconductor package copyright. I have a > Bioconductor package. I recently found most of the core codes of my package > have been mostly copied and packaged into another package and published in > Bioconductor. Although the new package says it�s a �derivative� of my > package. But does it violate the copyright under GPL-2? Thanks. > > Best, > Ji-Ping Wang > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > -- ---- Super happy with this new eLife paper describing an Open Science project where we discuss 260 thousand natural products and where they came from, all 700 thousand pairs linked to their primary literature: "The LOTUS initiative for open knowledge management in natural products research", https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.70780 ----- E.L. Willighagen Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Twitter/Mastodon: @egonwillighagen <https://twitter.com/egonwillighagen> / @egonw <https://scholar.social/@egonw> Homepage: http://egonw.github.io/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: https://www.zotero.org/egonw ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 <http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286> ImpactStory: https://impactstory.org/u/egonwillighagen [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
