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- Welcome to MacPerl. This file contains most of the original README file by
- Larry Wall. For Mac specific info, turn to README.MAC.
-
- Matthias Neeracher
- neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch
-
- --------------
-
- Perl Kit, Version 5.0
-
- Copyright (c) 1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994 Larry Wall
- All rights reserved.
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of either:
-
- a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
- Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
- later version, or
-
- b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either
- the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this
- Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, I'll be glad to provide one.
-
- You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License,
- my interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl
- script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put
- said script under the terms of the GPL yourself. Furthermore, any
- object code linked with uperl.o does not automatically fall under the
- terms of the GPL, provided such object code only adds definitions
- of subroutines and variables, and does not otherwise impair the
- resulting interpreter from executing any standard Perl script. I
- consider linking in C subroutines in this manner to be the moral
- equivalent of defining subroutines in the Perl language itself. You
- may sell such an object file as proprietary provided that you provide
- or offer to provide the Perl source, as specified by the GNU General
- Public License. (This is merely an alternate way of specifying input
- to the program.) You may also sell a binary produced by the dumping of
- a running Perl script that belongs to you, provided that you provide or
- offer to provide the Perl source as specified by the GPL. (The
- fact that a Perl interpreter and your code are in the same binary file
- is, in this case, a form of mere aggregation.) This is my interpretation
- of the GPL. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding
- my intent, feel free to contact me. Of course, the Artistic License
- spells all this out for your protection, so you may prefer to use that.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk
- and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also two Nutshell
- Handbooks published by O'Reilly & Assoc. See pod/perlbook.pod
- for more information.
-
- Just a personal note: I want you to know that I create nice things like this
- because it pleases the Author of my story. If this bothers you, then your
- notion of Authorship needs some revision. But you can use perl anyway. :-)
-
- The author.
-