Today, I found out that someone took the core parts of said software, adjusted it to run on Linux (not much to do - it was mostly shell scripts), removed all traces of my name and license on the original software, and instead put his own name in and put everything under the GPL.

I asked what's going on, and as a reply I was told that the scripts were not based on mine - something rather easy to prove wrong when looking at them (differences are mostly renamed variables, removal of my name; same code structure, even in help messages, etc.).

Now my question is, how does one handle such infringement of copyright and licensing? I don't have any money to bring this to court, nor would I really want to... It's both open source projects, but is asking for credit where credit is due too much? Can everyone steal intellectual property today in the name of the GPL?

[Tags: g4u, licensing]