Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 21:03:37 04/19/04
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On April 19, 2004 at 17:32:33, Thorsten Greiner wrote: >On April 19, 2004 at 12:52:46, Dan Honeycutt wrote: > >>... Pepito is an open-source program >>distributed under the GNU General Public License. In such a case is it >>acceptable to post code (with appropriate reference to the source) or not? > >Yes it is! Please take a look at the GPL: > > 1. 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 License and to the absence of any warranty; >and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License >along with the Program. That works fine if I were going to pass on a copy of the program to another person but I'm talking about posting a piece of it in a public forum. I read the GPL license and that's why I decided not to post any of the code. It sounds like, in addition to a 10 line snippet of code, I'd have to post pages of copyright notices, disclamers and the license itself. Dan H.
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