The core perl documentation is owned by several parties (which is to say, either the author(s) of the specific documentation and/or Larry Wall or some other legal person that has been assigned the copyright by its authors. See for instance perlreftut). Most of it is (probably) under the perl license (i.e. artistic/gpl) though some of the doc files have additional copyright/licensing comments and others do not specify any license in the resulting manpage. In your case, I would recommend you review each perldoc/manpage and its source file separately.

As far as I know, none of the core docs are under the GFDL.

As a side-note, opinion is divided on whether the GFDL is any good (compared to the GPL - Debian for instance considers the GFDL to be a non-free license)

update: GFDL describes the Gnu Free Documentation License and some of its criticisms.

update: s/weather/whether/ - thanks liverpole.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: Core Docs by Joost
in thread Core Docs by EvanCarroll

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