How to apply the GPL without violating it

[David A. Desrosiers]

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 09:29 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
> Just because something doesn't have a license inline doesn't mean it
> doesn't belong to someone else and must be licensed.  You may want to
> also include the URL of the GPL at
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html 

Don't forget to include the actual text of the GPL in the "COPYING"
file, as required by the license. Failure to include the human-readible
text of the GPL in your distribution voids the coverage of the GPL with
that distribution.