License
License
This distribution is an aggregate of several different projects, licensed under various OSI-
compatible Open Source licenses, or given to the public domain.
A summary of licenses for the component portions of this distribution is included below.
The full texts of these licenses are included in subdirectories of this directory.
Perl (core)
License
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
Source Code
For the most part, modules will state that they are licensed identically to the Perl interpreter, but
you may wish to check on the modules that you use.
A few license statements for libraries that are compiled into Perl modules statically are also
mentioned below:
The MD5 algorithm is defined in RFC 1321. This implementation is derived from the reference C
code in RFC 1321 which is covered by the following copyright statement:
Copyright (C) 1991-2, RSA Data Security, Inc. Created 1991. All rights reserved.
License to copy and use this software is granted provided that it is identified as the "RSA Data
Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material mentioning or referencing this
software or this function.
License is also granted to make and use derivative works provided that such works are identified
as "derived from the RSA Data Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm" in all material
mentioning or referencing the derived work.
RSA Data Security, Inc. makes no representations concerning either the merchantability of this
software or the suitability of this software for any particular purpose. It is provided "as is" without
express or implied warranty of any kind.
These notices must be retained in any copies of any part of this documentation and/or software.
This copyright does not prohibit distribution of any version of Perl containing this extension under
the terms of the GNU or Artistic licenses.
Check the License for details. You should have received a copy of it, along with the package; see
the file 'COPYING'. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite
330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.