{ "content": [ { "type": "text", "text": "# PERLGPL (man)\n\n## NAME\n\nperlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 1\n\n## SYNOPSIS\n\nYou can refer to this document in Pod via \"L\"\nOr you can see this document by entering \"perldoc perlgpl\"\n\n## DESCRIPTION\n\nPerl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:\n\n## Sections\n\n- **NAME**\n- **SYNOPSIS**\n- **DESCRIPTION**\n- **GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE**\n\nUse structuredContent.sections for detailed options, examples, and full documentation.\n" } ], "structuredContent": { "command": "PERLGPL", "section": "", "mode": "man", "summary": "perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 1", "synopsis": "You can refer to this document in Pod via \"L\"\nOr you can see this document by entering \"perldoc perlgpl\"", "tldr_summary": null, "tldr_examples": [], "tldr_source": null, "flags": [], "examples": [], "see_also": [], "section_outline": [ { "name": "NAME", "lines": 2, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "SYNOPSIS", "lines": 3, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "DESCRIPTION", "lines": 13, "subsections": [] }, { "name": "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE", "lines": 260, "subsections": [] } ], "sections": { "NAME": { "content": "perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 1\n", "subsections": [] }, "SYNOPSIS": { "content": "You can refer to this document in Pod via \"L\"\nOr you can see this document by entering \"perldoc perlgpl\"\n", "subsections": [] }, "DESCRIPTION": { "content": "Perl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:\n\na) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free\nSoftware Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any\nlater version, or\n\nb) the \"Artistic License\" which comes with this Kit.\n\nThis is the \"GNU General Public License, version 1\". It's here so that modules, programs,\netc., that want to declare this as their distribution license can link to it.\n\nFor the Perl Artistic License, see perlartistic.\n", "subsections": [] }, "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE": { "content": "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\nVersion 1, February 1989\n\nCopyright (C) 1989 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA\n\nEveryone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies\nof this license document, but changing it is not allowed.\n\nPreamble\n\nThe license agreements of most software companies try to keep users\nat the mercy of those companies. By contrast, our General Public\nLicense is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free\nsoftware--to make sure the software is free for all its users. The\nGeneral Public License applies to the Free Software Foundation's\nsoftware and to any other program whose authors commit to using it.\nYou can use it for your programs, too.\n\nWhen we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not\nprice. Specifically, the General Public License is designed to make\nsure that you have the freedom to give away or sell copies of free\nsoftware, that you receive source code or can get it if you want it,\nthat you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free\nprograms; and that you know you can do these things.\n\nTo protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid\nanyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.\nThese restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you\ndistribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.\n\nFor example, if you distribute copies of a such a program, whether\ngratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that\nyou have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the\nsource code. And you must tell them their rights.\n\nWe protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software,\nand (2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to\ncopy, distribute and/or modify the software.\n\nAlso, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain\nthat everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free\nsoftware. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on,\nwe want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original,\nso that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the\noriginal authors' reputations.\n\nThe precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and\nmodification follow.\n\nGNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\nTERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION\n\n0. This License Agreement applies to any program or other work which\ncontains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be\ndistributed under the terms of this General Public License. The\n\"Program\", below, refers to any such program or work, and a \"work based\non the Program\" means either the Program or any work containing the\nProgram or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications.\nEach licensee is addressed as \"you\".\n\n1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's\nsource code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you\nconspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate\ncopyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the\nnotices that refer to this General Public License and to the absence of\nany warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of\nthis General Public License along with the Program. You may charge a\nfee for the physical act of transferring a copy.\n\n2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion\nof it, and copy and distribute such modifications under the terms of\nParagraph 1 above, provided that you also do the following:\n\na) cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that\nyou changed the files and the date of any change; and\n\nb) cause the whole of any work that you distribute or publish, that\nin whole or in part contains the Program or any part thereof,\neither with or without modifications, to be licensed at no charge\nto all third parties under the terms of this General Public License\n(except that you may choose to grant warranty protection to some or\nall third parties, at your option).\n\nc) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively\nwhen run, you must cause it, when started running for such\ninteractive use in the simplest and most usual way, to print or\ndisplay an announcement including an appropriate copyright notice\nand a notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you\nprovide a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program\nunder these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of\nthis General Public License.\n\nd) You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a\ncopy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in\nexchange for a fee.\n\nMere aggregation of another independent work with the Program (or its\nderivative) on a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not\nbring the other work under the scope of these terms.\n\n3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a portion or\nderivative of it, under Paragraph 2) in object code or executable form\nunder the terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 above provided that you also do\none of the following:\n\na) accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable\nsource code, which must be distributed under the terms of\nParagraphs 1 and 2 above; or,\n\nb) accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three\nyears, to give any third party free (except for a nominal charge\nfor the cost of distribution) a complete machine-readable copy of\nthe corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of\nParagraphs 1 and 2 above; or,\n\nc) accompany it with the information you received as to where the\ncorresponding source code may be obtained. (This alternative is\nallowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you\nreceived the program in object code or executable form alone.)\n\nSource code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making\nmodifications to it. For an executable file, complete source code\nmeans all the source code for all modules it contains; but, as a\nspecial exception, it need not include source code for modules which\nare standard libraries that accompany the operating system on which the\nexecutable file runs, or for standard header files or definitions files\nthat accompany that operating system.\n\n4. You may not copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or transfer the\nProgram except as expressly provided under this General Public License.\nAny attempt otherwise to copy, modify, sublicense, distribute or\ntransfer the Program is void, and will automatically terminate your\nrights to use the Program under this License. However, parties who\nhave received copies, or rights to use copies, from you under this\nGeneral Public License will not have their licenses terminated so long\nas such parties remain in full compliance.\n\n5. By copying, distributing or modifying the Program (or any work\nbased on the Program) you indicate your acceptance of this license to\ndo so, and all its terms and conditions.\n\n6. Each time you redistribute the Program (or any work based on the\nProgram), the recipient automatically receives a license from the\noriginal licensor to copy, distribute or modify the Program subject to\nthese terms and conditions. You may not impose any further\nrestrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.\n\n7. The Free Software Foundation may publish revised and/or new\nversions of the General Public License from time to time. Such new\nversions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may\ndiffer in detail to address new problems or concerns.\n\nEach version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program\nspecifies a version number of the license which applies to it and \"any\nlater version\", you have the option of following the terms and\nconditions either of that version or of any later version published by\nthe Free Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a\nversion number of the license, you may choose any version ever\npublished by the Free Software Foundation.\n\n8. If you wish to incorporate parts of the Program into other free\nprograms whose distribution conditions are different, write to the\nauthor to ask for permission. For software which is copyrighted by the\nFree Software Foundation, write to the Free Software Foundation; we\nsometimes make exceptions for this. Our decision will be guided by the\ntwo goals of preserving the free status of all derivatives of our free\nsoftware and of promoting the sharing and reuse of software generally.\n\nNO WARRANTY\n\n9. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO\nWARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.\nEXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR\nOTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM \"AS IS\" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,\nEITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED\nWARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.\nTHE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS\nWITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF\nALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.\n\n10. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN\nWRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY\nAND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU\nFOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR\nCONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE\nPROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING\nRENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A\nFAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF\nSUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH\nDAMAGES.\n\nEND OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS\n\nAppendix: How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs\n\nIf you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest\npossible use to humanity, the best way to achieve this is to make it\nfree software which everyone can redistribute and change under these\nterms.\n\nTo do so, attach the following notices to the program. It is safest\nto attach them to the start of each source file to most effectively\nconvey the exclusion of warranty; and each file should have at least\nthe \"copyright\" line and a pointer to where the full notice is found.\n\n\nCopyright (C) 19yy \n\nThis program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or\nmodify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as\npublished by the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at\nyour option) any later version.\n\nThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,\nbut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\nMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the\nGNU General Public License for more details.\n\nYou should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License\nalong with this program; if not, write to the Free Software\nFoundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA\n02110-1301 USA\n\n\nAlso add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper\nmail.\n\nIf the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this\nwhen it starts in an interactive mode:\n\nGnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19xx name of author\nGnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type\n'show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome to\nredistribute it under certain conditions; type 'show c' for\ndetails.\n\nThe hypothetical commands 'show w' and 'show c' should show the\nappropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, the\ncommands you use may be called something other than 'show w' and 'show\nc'; they could even be mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your\nprogram.\n\nYou should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your\nschool, if any, to sign a \"copyright disclaimer\" for the program, if\nnecessary. Here a sample; alter the names:\n\nYoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the\nprogram 'Gnomovision' (a program to direct compilers to make passes\nat assemblers) written by James Hacker.\n\n, 1 April 1989\nTy Coon, President of Vice\n\nThat's all there is to it!\n\n\n\nperl v5.34.0 2025-07-25 PERLGPL(1)", "subsections": [] } } } }