Very little of the text in Learning Perl comes from perldoc,
while nearly all of Programming Perl does. However, I'm sure you
should keep quoting to a minimum unless it's from perldoc and you
attribute it properly.
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Sure, merlyn, I don't want to infringe any copyright stuff.
But what's about perldoc? Is this copyrighted? I don't think so. Am I wrong?
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<http://www.dave.org.uk>
European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000, ICA, London
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It think you're talking about the Camel book here. Whilst it's true that the camel and perldoc do have a lot of text in common, they are both under copyright and subject to the usual restrictions.
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<http://www.dave.org.uk>
European Perl Conference - Sept 22/24 2000, ICA, London
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