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| 2 | Perl Kit, Version 5
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| 4 | Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999,
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| 5 | 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by Larry Wall and others
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| 6 |
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| 7 | All rights reserved.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| 10 | it under the terms of either:
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| 11 |
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| 12 | a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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| 13 | Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
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| 14 | later version, or
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| 15 |
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| 16 | b) the "Artistic License" which comes with this Kit.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 19 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 20 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See either
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| 21 | the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License for more details.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | You should have received a copy of the Artistic License with this
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| 24 | Kit, in the file named "Artistic". If not, I'll be glad to provide one.
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| 25 |
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| 26 | You should also have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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| 27 | along with this program in the file named "Copying". If not, write to the
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| 28 | Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
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| 29 | 02111-1307, USA or visit their web page on the internet at
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| 30 | http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | For those of you that choose to use the GNU General Public License,
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| 33 | my interpretation of the GNU General Public License is that no Perl
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| 34 | script falls under the terms of the GPL unless you explicitly put
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| 35 | said script under the terms of the GPL yourself. Furthermore, any
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| 36 | object code linked with perl does not automatically fall under the
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| 37 | terms of the GPL, provided such object code only adds definitions
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| 38 | of subroutines and variables, and does not otherwise impair the
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| 39 | resulting interpreter from executing any standard Perl script. I
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| 40 | consider linking in C subroutines in this manner to be the moral
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| 41 | equivalent of defining subroutines in the Perl language itself. You
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| 42 | may sell such an object file as proprietary provided that you provide
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| 43 | or offer to provide the Perl source, as specified by the GNU General
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| 44 | Public License. (This is merely an alternate way of specifying input
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| 45 | to the program.) You may also sell a binary produced by the dumping of
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| 46 | a running Perl script that belongs to you, provided that you provide or
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| 47 | offer to provide the Perl source as specified by the GPL. (The
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| 48 | fact that a Perl interpreter and your code are in the same binary file
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| 49 | is, in this case, a form of mere aggregation.) This is my interpretation
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| 50 | of the GPL. If you still have concerns or difficulties understanding
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| 51 | my intent, feel free to contact me. Of course, the Artistic License
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| 52 | spells all this out for your protection, so you may prefer to use that.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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| 55 |
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| 56 | Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk
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| 57 | and shell. See the manual page for more hype. There are also many Perl
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| 58 | books available, covering a wide variety of topics, from various publishers.
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| 59 | See pod/perlbook.pod for more information.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | Please read all the directions below before you proceed any further, and
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| 62 | then follow them carefully.
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| 63 |
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| 64 | Installation
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| 65 |
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| 66 | 1) Detailed instructions are in the file "INSTALL", which you should
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| 67 | read if you are either installing on a system resembling Unix
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| 68 | or porting perl to another platform. For non-Unix platforms, see the
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| 69 | corresponding README.
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| 70 |
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| 71 | 2) Read the manual entries before running perl.
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| 72 |
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| 73 | 3) IMPORTANT! Help save the world! Communicate any problems and suggested
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| 74 | patches to perlbug@perl.org so we can keep the world in sync.
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| 75 | If you have a problem, there's someone else out there who either has had
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| 76 | or will have the same problem. See the section on "Reporting Problems"
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| 77 | in the INSTALL file.
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| 78 |
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| 79 | The latest versions of perl are always available on the various CPAN
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| 80 | (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) sites around the world.
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| 81 | See http://www.cpan.org/src/ .
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| 82 |
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| 83 |
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| 84 | Just a personal note: I want you to know that I create nice things like this
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| 85 | because it pleases the Author of my story. If this bothers you, then your
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| 86 | notion of Authorship needs some revision. But you can use perl anyway. :-)
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| 87 |
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| 88 | The author.
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