in reply to RE: Quoting the masters...
in thread Quoting the masters...

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.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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RE: RE: RE: Quoting the masters...
by le (Friar) on Jul 12, 2000 at 13:29 UTC
    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?

      Many of the files have this attached:

      AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
      Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Tom Christiansen All rights reserved.
       
      When included as part of the Standard Version of Perl, or as
      part of its complete documentation whether printed or
      otherwise, this work may be distributed only under the terms
      of Perl's Artistic License.  Any distribution of this file
      or derivatives thereof outside of that package require that
      special arrangements be made with copyright holder.
       
      Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples in this
      file are hereby placed into the public domain.  You are
      permitted and encouraged to use this code in your own
      programs for fun or for profit as you see fit.  A simple
      comment in the code giving credit would be courteous but is
      not required.
      
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