FAQ 1.2 Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
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From: PerlFAQ Server on 6 Apr 2010 06:00 This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.2: Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free? The original culture of the pre-populist Internet and the deeply-held beliefs of Perl's author, Larry Wall, gave rise to the free and open distribution policy of perl. Perl is supported by its users. The core, the standard Perl library, the optional modules, and the documentation you're reading now were all written by volunteers. See the personal note at the end of the README file in the perl source distribution for more details. See perlhist (new as of 5.005) for Perl's milestone releases. In particular, the core development team (known as the Perl Porters) are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for money. You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ and http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters(a)perl.org/ or the news gateway nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters , or read the faq at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/docs/p5p-faq.html , or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending perl5-porters-request(a)perl.org a subscription request (an empty message with no subject is fine). While the GNU project includes Perl in its distributions, there's no such thing as "GNU Perl". Perl is not produced nor maintained by the Free Software Foundation. Perl's licensing terms are also more open than GNU software's tend to be. You can get commercial support of Perl if you wish, although for most users the informal support will more than suffice. See the answer to "Where can I buy a commercial version of perl?" for more information. -------------------------------------------------------------------- The perlfaq-workers, a group of volunteers, maintain the perlfaq. They are not necessarily experts in every domain where Perl might show up, so please include as much information as possible and relevant in any corrections. The perlfaq-workers also don't have access to every operating system or platform, so please include relevant details for corrections to examples that do not work on particular platforms. Working code is greatly appreciated. If you'd like to help maintain the perlfaq, see the details in perlfaq.pod.
From: Philip Potter on 6 Apr 2010 06:14 On 06/04/2010 11:00, PerlFAQ Server wrote: > This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq1.pod, which > comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to > reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community > to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete > perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 1.2: Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free? > [snip] > http://dev.perl.org/perl5/docs/p5p-faq.html , or you can subscribe to > the mailing list by sending perl5-porters-request(a)perl.org a > subscription request (an empty message with no subject is fine). That should be perl5-porters-subscribe(a)perl.org. I just send a test email from a nonsubscribed account to perl5-porters-request@ and got: --8<-------------------------- Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the perl5-porters(a)perl.org mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at perl5-porters-owner(a)perl.org. This is a generic help message. The message I received wasn't sent to any of my command addresses. [...etc...] --8<-------------------------- Phil
From: brian d foy on 7 Apr 2010 04:38
In article <hpf1hp$gkq$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>, Philip Potter <pgp(a)doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote: > > 1.2: Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free? > > > [snip] > > http://dev.perl.org/perl5/docs/p5p-faq.html , or you can subscribe to > > the mailing list by sending perl5-porters-request(a)perl.org a > > subscription request (an empty message with no subject is fine). > > That should be perl5-porters-subscribe(a)perl.org. I just send a test > email from a nonsubscribed account to perl5-porters-request@ and got: Thanks. I'll update the answer |