License explanation for bundled modules for HTMLValidator

The W3C Validator script is licensed under the W3C Software Notice and License


The changelog is included in the top of the validator script as are the existing intellectual property disclaimers

If you have any concerns about this please contact us at support@malcolmhardie.com or opensource@malcolmhardie.com


W3C SOFTWARE NOTICE AND LICENSE

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The following modules are included unchanged within HTMLValidator and have been built from CPAN.

Config-General-2.31

Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Thomas Linden
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

HTML-Template-2.8

Copyright 1996-2007 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
Copyright 1999-2000 Michael A. Chase.  All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Text-Iconv-1.4

Copyright (c) copyright 2004 Michael Piotrowski.  All Rights Reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

HTML-Parser-3.56

(c) copyright 1995-2007 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
(c) copyright 1999-2000 Michael A. Chase.  All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Net-IP-1.25

Copyright (c) 1999 - 2002                           RIPE NCC
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the name of the author not be
used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
software without specific, written prior permission.

libwww-perl-5.805

(c) copyright 1995-2005 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved. 
(c) copyright 1995 Martijn Koster. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.

HTML-Tagset-3.10

Copyright 1995-2000 Gisle Aas.
Copyright 2000-2005 Sean M. Burke.
Copyright 2005 Andy Lester.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Set-IntSpan-1.09

Copyright 1996-2005 by Steven McDougall. 
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


We believe this falls under the aggregation clauses of the relevant licenses and specifically clause 8 of the Artistic license

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlartistic.html

If you have any concerns about this please contact us at support@malcolmhardie.com or opensource@malcolmhardie.com

In particular please contact us if you feel that we have either mis-interpreted or incorrectly stated the licenses for any of the included software.

Note that the validator script which actually uses these perl modules is also open source and that we use a pipe to connect it with the user interface (which is commercially licensed)