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authorTom Christiansen <tchrist@perl.com>1998-07-05 04:15:22 -0500
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-07-05 21:38:39 +0000
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=head1 NAME
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 1997/04/24 22:43:34 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 1998/06/14 22:15:25 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ users the informal support will more than suffice. See the answer to
You should definitely use version 5. Version 4 is old, limited, and
no longer maintained; its last patch (4.036) was in 1992. The most
-recent production release is 5.004. Further references to the Perl
+recent production release is 5.004_01. Further references to the Perl
language in this document refer to this production release unless
otherwise specified. There may be one or more official bug fixes for
-5.004 by the time you read this, and also perhaps some experimental
+5.004_01 by the time you read this, and also perhaps some experimental
versions on the way to the next release.
=head2 What are perl4 and perl5?
@@ -250,15 +250,13 @@ behind). Several important bugs were fixed from the 5.000 through
Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
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 I<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.
+When included as an integrated part of the Standard Distribution
+of Perl or of its documentation (printed or otherwise), this works is
+covered under Perl's Artistic Licence. For separate distributions of
+all or part of this FAQ outside of that, see L<perlfaq>.
+
+Irrespective of its distribution, all code examples here are public
+domain. You are permitted and encouraged to use this code and any
+derivatives thereof in your own programs for fun or for profit as you
+see fit. A simple comment in the code giving credit to the FAQ would
+be courteous but is not required.