What is the license on a port of something?

[dracule]

I am porting something from Ruby (the library has GPL) to python. Does the GPL go away when I port it and I can release it with my own license?

[madverb]

no

[wmcbrine]

It depends. There are ports, and there are independent re-implementations, and it's not always clear where the line is. But if you have to ask...