Re: GNU licenses

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   If I copy a GPL-licensed work and utterly ignore whatever the GPL
   says, how is a statement *in the GPL* going to change my legal
   position?

By copying the program, you accepted the license.

"distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you
indicate your acceptance of this License to do so"

So your legal position if you ignore whatever the GNU GPL states is:
copyright infrigment.

Cheers.