Hi

I've been approached by an "e-learning provider" to generate Perl content with lengthy code examples for a wide area of applications.

I'm afraid that fulfilling this volume of requested content is only possible by altering generic example code which is open source and changing it considerably.

That is

To avoid misunderstandings:

It's not about producing production code.

The task requires

Crucial point is this client is also asking me to transfer the copyright for this work. (not only the code)

Question:

For comparison:

Many copyrighted programs I've seen started once by copying an example from CPAN docs and altering it.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery FootballPerl is like chess, only without the dice

In reply to Open source code and copyright by LanX

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