- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should 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.
+ 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 in the file named "Copying". If not, write to the
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
+ 02111-1307, USA or visit their web page on the internet at
+ http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
+
+ 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 perl 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.