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|      \ \  \/\ \ __  __  ______  ______     (P)erl 6               |
|       \ \   __//\ \/\ \/\  __ \/\  ___\    (U)ser's               |
|        \ \  \/ \ \ \_\ \ \ \/\ \ \___  \   (G)olfing              |
|         \ \__\  \ \____/\ \____ \/\_____\  (S)ystem               |
|          \/__/   \/___/  \/___/\ \/____/                          |
|                            /\____/                                |
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Pugs is Copyright 2005-2008, The Pugs Contributors.

Pugs is a joint work of authorship by the Pugs Contributors.

Pugs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the Artistic License 2.0.  (Note that, unlike the Artistic License
1.0, version 2.0 is GPL compatible by itself, hence there is no benefit to
having an Artistic 2.0 / GPL disjunction.)

In addition, you can redistribute and/or modify contributions under the
src/ directory, as well as the "pugs" executable program produced by
compilation, under the terms of the MIT license.

Please see the "Artistic-2" and "MIT" files under the "LICENSE" directory
for the full license text.


INSTALLATION
------------

See the INSTALL file for instructions on building and installing Pugs.


COPYRIGHTED WORKS FROM THIRD-PARTY PROJECTS
-------------------------------------------

The following works are owned by third-party projects and are not
subject to joint ownership.  Eventually, these packages should all
be moved to the third-party/ directory.

The "ByteString" subsystem is derived from Don Stewart et al's work,
under a BSD-style license.  See third-party/fps/LICENSE.

The "HsJudy" subsystem is derived from Caio Marcelo de Oliveira Filho's
work, under a BSD-style license.  See third-party/HsJudy/HsJudy.cabal.

The "HsSyck" subsystem is derived from "why the lucky stiff", Gaal Yahas
and Audrey Tang's work, under a BSD-style license.
See third-party/HsSyck/LICENSE.

The "Judy" subsystem is derived from Doug Baskins's work, under the LGPL
license, version 2.1. See third-party/judy/COPYING.

The "PArrows" subsystem is derived from Einar Karttunen's work,
under a BSD-style license.  See src/Text/Parser/PArrows.cabal.

The "PCRE" subsystem is derived from PCRE 5.0 by Philip Hazel,
under a BSD-style license.  See src/pcre/LICENCE.

The "PGE" subsystem is derived from PGE by Patrick Michaud,
under the same license as Parrot.  See src/pge/README.

The "RRegex" subsystem is derived from hsregex 0.2 by John Meacham,
under a BSD-style license.  See third-party/hsregex/RRegex/LICENSE.

The "UTF8" subsystem is derived from Martin Norbäck's work,
under a BSD-style license.  See src/UTF8.hs.


COPYRIGHTED PERL 6 LIBRARY EXTENSIONS
-------------------------------------

Except as listed below, all works under the ext/ directory can be
redistributed and/or modified under the same license as Pugs itself.

The "Locale-KeyedText" library is released by Darren Duncan under the GNU
Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or later.  See
LICENSE/LGPL-3 and LICENSE/GPL-3.

The "Muldis-DB" library is released by Darren Duncan under the GNU Lesser
General Public License (LGPL), version 3.0 or later.  See LICENSE/LGPL-3
and LICENSE/GPL-3.

The "WTemplate" library is released by Andras Barthazi under any
version of the GNU General Public License (GPL).  See LICENSE/GPL-3.


MAILING LISTS
-------------

The mailing list for Pugs is perl6-compiler.  Subscribe by sending mail to
<[email protected]>.  Mailing list archive is available at:

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    nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl6.compiler                (NNTP)

Please submit bug reports to <[email protected]>.

WEB SITES
---------

The Pugs homepage is at:

    http://pugscode.org/

For Perl 6 related information, please see:

    http://dev.perl.org/perl6/

Enjoy,
The Pugs Contributors

P.S. "Perl" stands for "Polymorphic Existential Recursive Lambdas", too!