Re: perl camel silliness
On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 03:31:14AM -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote:
>
> After bothering to ask O'Rielly whether I could "associate a camel image
> with perl" in a free software package they basically said no. It's a
> silly thing, but I thought I'd drop a note here that the camel xbm bitmap
> in the perl-tk package violates their trademark terms. To ask permission
> is to invite denial I guess...
>
The web site at http://www.perl.org/ and the Macintosh version of Larry
Wall's perl interpreter both make this same association. The web site makes
attribution, but I couldn't find any such attribution in macperl. I don't
know if permission was granted for either.
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Brian Ristuccia
brianr@osiris.978.org
bristucc@nortelnetworks.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu
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