specifically, paragraph 4.c:

[you may distribnuted modifed Perl provided you]
give non-standard executables non-standard names,
and clearly document the differences in manual pages
(or equivalent), together with instructions on where to
get the Standard Version.

So, something like "Whizzomatic can be automated by
writing whizz-scripts, using Perl!  (To obtain Perl,
see http://perl.org) would allow commercial distribution
under 4.c.

Para 8 allows Perl to fit into the bigger picture much
like a compiler -- compile an executable and distribute the
executable, that's not a distribution of the compiler.  Compose
an aggregation of perl and a perl script and distribute the
aggregation, that's not a distributioon of Perl.

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