The Perl/Tk extension to the Perl programming language is copyrighted by its author Nick Ing-Simmons mailto:nik@tiuk.ti.com whose Tk400.202/COPYING file reads as follows: Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Nick Ing-Simmons. All rights reserved.This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/ormodify it under the same terms as Perl itself, with the exceptionof the files in the pTk sub-directory which have separate termsderived from those of the orignal Tk4.0 sources and/or Tix.IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR DISTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTYFOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGESARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, ITS DOCUMENTATION, OR ANYDERIVATIVES THEREOF, EVEN IF THE AUTHORS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THEPOSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. THIS SOFTWAREIS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE AUTHORS AND DISTRIBUTORS HAVENO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE, SUPPORT, UPDATES, ENHANCEMENTS, ORMODIFICATIONS.See pTk/license.terms for details of this Tk license, and pTk/Tix.license for the Tix license.
Especial thanks to: Nick Ing-Simmons for writing perl/Tk. Peter Prymmer for maintaining this document until September 2000. Dan Riley mailto:dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu for outstanding networking and countless other tough jobs. Malcolm Beattie for tkperl. An anonymous comp.lang.perl.tk poster for writing the initial "pseudo-FAQ" that got this started. Larry Wall for writing extensible Perl 5 & John Ousterhout for writing Tk 4. Tom Christiansen and Stephen P. Potter for writing and maintaining excellent perl documentation, and general doc help. Jon Orwant mailto:orwant@media.mit.edu for organizing the comp.lang.perl.tk Usenet newsgroup. Alan Stange & Tom Schlagel for the hypermail archive, the ftp & e-mail distribution of the FAQ, etc. Achim Bohnet for an excellent searchable hypermail archive. Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> for great perl/Tk pod docs. KOBAYASI Hiroaki <kobayasi@sowa.is.uec.ac.jp> for great perl/Tk scripts. William J. Middleton <wjm@best.com> for archive help. Ioi Kim Lam for Tix. Slaven Rezic for his encouragement and criticism of the FAQ in the year 2000. Larry Virden for cross-posting the Tcl FAQ, and helping with all sorts of administrative matters, as well as editorial comments on this one. Don Libes mailto:libes@cme.nist.gov for lucid informative conversations on Tcl & Expect. Terry Carroll <carroll@tjc.com> for valuable usage advice. Nancy Walsh for great bibliographic help. Andreas Koenig for helping locate space in CPAN for this FAQ's new home.
In addition, this FAQ has benefitted from the contributions of many people all over the net to whom I am quite grateful.