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by shortstuffsushi 4485 days ago
That actually brings an interesting question to mind. As someone who hasn't forked anyone's repository, I am not familiar with the licensing expectations of doing so. Obviously the code you've forked belonged to someone else, but at what point can you say "this is now my creation," or at least, "I own modifications to my fork of this guy's work?"

How do you fork and re-license appropriately?

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someone knows, but not me and probably not anyone commenting on the pull request. xD

what if you rewrite the library line for line in another language? do you own it then? what if you rewrite it line for line in the same language?

licensing is not my forte but i'm assuming these are answered questions.