Can I translate App under GPLv3 into Swift without using GLPv3?

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Can I translate an App from Android using GPLv3 into Swift? Because actually I don't use any source code. Do I need to keep it under GPLv3 and open source? Is there any method to avoid infection if it must under GPLv3?

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The GPLv3 licence of the original requires that, if you create a work which is (in copyright terms) a derivative of the original, and you distribute your derivative, you must do so under GPLv3.

It's not clear to me in what sense you're using translate. If you mean it in the linguistic sense, translating from one human language to another, then I can't see any way not to create a derivative.

If you're using it to mean converting an application from one programming language to another, this is normally referred to as porting. It is possible to do this in a way that doesn't create a derivative work, but it requires two people, and is known as a clean-room reimplementation. To do this, one person must take the current work apart, and express exactly what it does in a document called a functional specification. The other person then, without ever seeing the original work or directly communicating with the first person, implements the functional specification in the new computer language. This is an enormous amount of work. If you decide to do the port by yourself it is very likely that the work you create would be regarded as a derivative of the original work.

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The GPLv3 licence of the original requires that, if you create a work which is (in copyright terms) a derivative of the original, and you distribute your derivative, you must do so under GPLv3.

It's not clear to me in what sense you're using translate. If you mean it in the linguistic sense, translating from one human language to another, then I can't see any way not to create a derivative.

If you're using it to mean converting an application from one programming language to another, this is normally referred to as porting. It is possible to do this in a way that doesn't create a derivative work, but it requires two people, and is known as a clean-room reimplementation. To do this, one person must take the current work apart, and express exactly what it does in a document called a functional specification. The other person then, without ever seeing the original work or directly communicating with the first person, implements the functional specification in the new computer language. This is an enormous amount of work. If you decide to do the port by yourself it is very likely that the work you create would be regarded as a derivative of the original work.

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The GPLv3 licence of the original requires that, if you create a work which is (in copyright terms) a derivative of the original, and you distribute your derivative, you must do so under GPLv3.

It's not clear to me in what sense you're using translate. If you mean it in the linguistic sense, translating from one human language to another, then I can't see any way not to create a derivative.

If you're using it to mean converting an application from one programming language to another, this is normally referred to as porting. It is possible to do this in a way that doesn't create a derivative work, but it requires two people, and is known as a clean-room reimplementation. To do this, one person must take the current work apart, and express exactly what it does in a document called a functional specification. The other person then, without ever seeing the original work or directly communicating with the first person, implements the functional specification in the new computer language. This is an enormous amount of work. If you decide to do the port by yourself it is very likely that the work you create would be regarded as a derivative of the original work.

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It's not clear to me in what sense you're using translate. If you mean it in the linguistic sense, translating from one human language to another, then I can't see any way not to create a derivative.

If you're using it to mean converting an application from one programming language to another, this is normally referred to as porting. It is possible to do this in a way that doesn't create a derivative work, but it requires two people, and is known as a clean-room reimplementation. To do this, one person must take the current work apart, and express exactly what it does in a document called a functional specification. The other person then, without ever seeing the original work or directly communicating with the first person, implements the functional specification in the new computer language. This is an enormous amount of work. If you decide to do the port by yourself it is very likely that the work you create would be regarded as a derivative of the original work.

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The GPLv3 licence of the original requires that, if you create a work which is (in copyright terms) a derivative of the original, and you distribute your derivative, you must do so under GPLv3.

It's not clear to me in what sense you're using translate. If you mean it in the linguistic sense, translating from one human language to another, then I can't see any way not to create a derivative.

If you're using it to mean converting an application from one programming language to another, this is normally referred to as porting. It is possible to do this in a way that doesn't create a derivative work, but it requires two people, and is known as a clean-room reimplementation. To do this, one person must take the current work apart, and express exactly what it does in a document called a functional specification. The other person then, without ever seeing the original work or directly communicating with the first person, implements the functional specification in the new computer language. This is an enormous amount of work. If you decide to do the port by yourself it is very likely that the work you create would be regarded as a derivative of the original work.

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