The original author was: xern Copyright (C) 2003 xern This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Perl is distributed under your choice of the GNU General Public License or the Artistic License. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' and the Artistic Licence in `/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic'.