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I've posted before about the problems with "same terms as Perl" licensing, not the least of which is the question "which version of Perl are you referring to?" I bet that most people who use "same terms as Perl itself" used it for the same reason I did: because it was the easiest way to do it, and I was lazy.

So to help out my lazy sisters and brothers in Perl, here is a block of POD that you can go paste into your modules right now, all formatted and pretty.

=head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2005-2009 Andy Lester.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of either:

=over 4

=item * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) any
later version, or

=item * the Artistic License version 2.0.

=back

You'll want to change the "Andy Lester" part. I don't want to take credit for half the CPAN.