in reply to Re: Roll your own!
in thread Roll your own!

I think you mean the Artistic license. If you just grab GPL code (even perl code, where there is no distinction between binary and source) and redistribute it as your own, you are quite likely to be in violation of the license.

(Update: I think this is a violation even under the Artistic license. Both require mentions of the licensing terms to remain, which kind of foils an attempt to pass it off as your own.)

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Re: Re: Re: Roll your own!
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2003 at 04:16 UTC
    Really? Why don't you post that part of the GPL?
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      You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this General Public License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public License along with the Program.
      Distributing modified copies has even more strict terms.
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        Okay where does it say you can't rename the software?
        Where does it say you can't say you wrote it?
        All that says is you must :
      • you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty
      • keep intact all the notices that refer to this General Public License and to the absence of any warranty
      • give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this General Public License along with the Program
        It is just as I thought ... you have no idea what you talking about.
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