INTENT OF THE LITT PERL DEVELOPMENT TOOL LICENSE

The intent of the Litt Perl Development Tool License (LPDTL) is to provide
programmers with a development tool that is copylefted free software without requiring
applications built from this tool to be free software.

I (Steve Litt) have tried to craft the LPDTL to prevent "cute and
innovative" ways of taking this tool private. For instance, a person might
try to make the LPDTL licensed code dependent on subroutines in proprietary
subroutines. This is why the LPDTL has a clause stating that all
*development* features must reside in the LPDTL code, or in GPL code, but
not non-GPL-compatible code.

Although the LPDTL allows its use with software of almost any license, it
specifically forbits use with licenses doing any of the following:

1. Restricting reverse engineering

2. Restricting discussion about the software

3. Code that includes software patents

I feel that restrictions on reverse engineering and discussion, and software
patents, are so destructive to society, that I have included language
preventing use of LPDTL licensed code with any software incorporating any of
these three atrocities.