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46 Acknowledgements

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 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.

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