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Who supports Perl? Who develops Perl? Why is it free?

by faq_monk (Initiate)
on Oct 08, 1999 at 00:15 UTC ( #563=perlfaq nodetype: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

Current Perl documentation can be found at




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.

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