13 ways - Someone Copied/ Stolen App

[RequiemxOP]

Describe the bug

Someone copied your app on Play Store. And running Ads in it. Isn't this against the rights mentioned, prohibition of using the Seal name. That guy isn't the orginal Creator.

Screenshots & Screen Records

[gabrielparca]

Well, within these 10 days, it doubled the download count.

The thing here is that permissions granted by Seal's GNU General Public License v3.0 are conditioned on users passing downstream the same received freedoms. This essentially means that any and all copies—and derived versions—of Seal ought to grant that same license (giving legal permission to copy, distribute, and/or modify it) to everyone who receives them. Plus, distributors have the obligation to show users the terms of the GNU GPL so they may, appropriately, prevent others from denying their rights or asking to surrender them.

Moreover, it is essential to make available the complete source code, either verbatim or modified. If modified, the program must carry prominent notices stating that it has been changed.

Apparently, in the case of Hit K Apps, none of these conditions is met. Adding to the list, amndassuming that changes to the software were made, the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed, thus preventing the misatribution to authors of previous versions.

Another thing: at the bottom of the page here in GitHub, in 'License'', there is a clear warning prohibiting the use of Seal to name a downloader app.

All in all I reckon there is more than enough here to base a report based on PlayStore's policy violations of Impersonation and Intellectual Property.

[Zoey2936]

https://support.google.com/legal/contact/lr_trademark?product=googleplay The owners of the repo could report the app here