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by mhdhejazi 2277 days ago
It'd be totally fine had they respected the license or attributed the project. It's great to know that people use your app and find it useful, and that's why I offered the app to JHU to publish it in their name when Apple rejected it. I'm bothered more by the way the app is published without attribution and how I knew about that.
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Does your app have an About App page or other clearly visible GPLv3 banner containing your name, which they then removed?
That sounds like a fair complaint to me!
how exactly did they not respect the license?

i just don't understand your complaint at all.

The GPL requires that derivatives (A) credit you, and (B) release their source under the same license.

IANAL but this is not nitpicky legal details; it's the entire point of a copyleft license.