GPL Violation

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I'd like to bring your attention to the following app, which seems to be a 
proprietary derivative of frozenbubbleandroid:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.can0p.shootdinosaureggs

Everything appears to be the same except that some graphics has been replaced 
and an ad has been added. No source code is provided and neither is 
acknowledgement of the original author.

This is the developer's email as shown on the app's page: 6Canopus@gmail.com

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jdoe1212...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2014 at 5:44

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New graphics are not covered by the GPL - I sent an email to check whether 
he/she modified the source code, at which point they should make it available 
to comply with the GPL.

If the game is identical to Frozen Bubble for Android, but with different 
graphics is all, then it's not a violation.

Original comment by forter...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2014 at 6:19

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Original comment by forter...@gmail.com on 6 Jan 2014 at 6:19

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Note that section 3 of GPLv2 requires that the binary be accompanied with 
either an offer for source code or the source code itself, even if it is 
unmodified, so he/she should tell the users where to find the source code 
regardless.

Original comment by jdoe1212...@gmail.com on 8 Jan 2014 at 11:18

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This is the reply I received:

Hi Eric Fortin,

I use cocos2d-x and code the game by C++ from the scratch so I think I am not 
violation Frozen Bubble or GPL open source license.

Please check carefully again!

Thanks!

A rewrite is not derivative, so this is not in violation.

Original comment by forter...@gmail.com on 10 Feb 2014 at 1:16

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How about the graphics, sound effects, and level map?

Original comment by jdoe1212...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2014 at 5:13