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<blockquote><em>"That is true, I could just copy the module and rename it as something else and copy it directly into my script."</em></blockquote>
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Don't even rename it. Dump it in any directory you feel fit and use [module://lib].
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<blockquote><em>"Plus if someone finds out that I copied it from a CPAN module, then I would be in trouble because I will be violating our 'policy' and it would be considered as plagiarism, right?"</em></blockquote>
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And now you make it sound like it's a school/homework project. The module in question is licensed under the same terms as Perl, so if using Perl is considered plagiarism, yes.
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<blockquote><em>"And as someone mentioned, if I 'copied' a small snippet from the web, then it would be fine because it is just 'small'."</em></blockquote>
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The size of the snippet doesn't matter. If you don't know what it does exactly, the security issue still applies. I'd personally trust CPAN modules more than random "snippets".
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