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Contributed Modules in Perl Core
A Social Contract about Artistic Control
We recognize that the Perl core, defined as the software distributed with
the heart of Perl itself, is a joint project on the part of all of us.
->From time to time, a script, module, or set of modules (hereafter referred
+From time to time, a script, module, or set of modules (hereafter referred
to simply as a "module") will prove so widely useful and/or so integral to
the correct functioning of Perl itself that it should be distributed with
Perl core. This should never be done without the author's explicit
at a compromise. In nearly every circumstance nothing more will be
necessary, and certainly no more drastic measure should be used until
every avenue of communication and discussion has failed.
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+Version 1.2. By Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) and the perl5-porters.
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