Hello all.. I have a problem on my GPL C++ application.
Some years ago I has been in contact with a research group that was developing a C++ multi-agent model of agricultural systems.
We worked together for a couple of years within an EU founder research project and I learned C++.
Ended that experience, I decided to develop from scratch a "clone" of such model. I didn't absolutelly copy any class, function, algorithm, line or whatsoever of such program, even because, as it has been developed for tens of years by different people in different contests, it was quite a "spaghetti code" and it wasn't very clear at all!
Rather, I started again with the very general concepts and I re-wrote from scratch the program, that ended being rather different from those original and I published it as GPL.
Now these people (Germans) sent me a threat letter and asked me to switch off my web-site.
Can anyone tell me if such request has any legal foundation ?? I will particular appreciate those giving me points to theyr favour..
Thanks, Antonello Lobianco - http://www.RegMAS.org http://www.regmas.org/