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Regrading use of others written template
By PraveenDhinwa, 13 years ago, In English

I want to use template used by some coder . So if I write his name in the top and say this is taken by this coder . Is this against the copyright law .

Please suggest me.

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I don't think there's any law against that. And it's unlikely that great coders like Petr, ACRush mind you using their code. But I think you should better invent your own template, it's part of who you are :)

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    although I have modified it according to my needs but the code matches to a large extent.

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This depends on the contest you're going to use the template in. At TopCoder, for example, the rule is that all code you submit must be written by you, so this would violate the rules. Not sure what's the policy about this at Codeforces.

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    How is it supposed to be checked? E.g. I do not even remember whose template I started to use once. However, since then I use it regularly online and at regional ICPCs.

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