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in reply to Net::FTP::Recursive on perl 5.0
your company cannot patent/copyright the whole thing, only the code you wrote can be copyright. the part you pinched, that is Net::FTP code, must be excluded from any such proprietary patent/copyright, and the GPL disclaimer must be included (not stripped) from Net::FTP. In other words: you can't take it and put a copyright on GPL (OpenSource) software. My company uses (for Windows install) Cygwin, Perl, etc., but charges for the "system" and maintenance etc. The whole of the "system" (including proprietary binaries) is very flexible and open, but pretty useless to someone who doesn't have all the documentation on how it all works together and how to customize it well.
By the way, careful on your implementation of "recursive FTP". i hope the ftp connection itself (inside a recursive loop) doesn't break the whole chain when one connection in the chain hangs etc. |
Re: Re: Net::FTP::Recursive on perl 5.0
by Corion (Patriarch) on Aug 20, 2003 at 13:49 UTC
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Luckily, Net::FTP::Recursive is dual licensed, so that the GPL does not necessarily apply. Giving credit is good though.
perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ; # The
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' # web
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