I've noticed in a few posts (mine included) that we've quoted text verbatim out of various Perl books. Sometimes, I just cut-n-paste solutions from the Perl CD Bookshelf, with a tad of HTML cleanup.

From a legalise standpoint, how do we feel about this? I imagine that technically we're violating a copyright. On the other hand, we're generating book sales, since I've seen several people mention they were going to run out buy the book.

I do know that I make it a point to name the book and chapter, but that's primarily so people know where to look in the book later.

Is this a practice we should continue with? Does anyone really care? Do we care, from a site lawsuit standpoint?

--Chris

Have we talked about this before, and I just totally missed it?

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