Perl Foundation
nonprofit organization
The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF), also known as Yet Another Society, is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. It is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl and Raku programming languages through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code. The Perl Foundation fulfills a range of activities which includes, "the collection and distribution of development grants, sponsorship and organization of community-led local and international Perl conferences, and support for community web sites and user groups."
Projects and activities
The Perl Foundation supports the use and development of Perl in many ways:
Supporting international YAPCs
Awarding grants for Perl projects
Network infrastructure operations, which support community websites such as PerlMonks.org, Perl Mongers, and perl.org
Holding trademarks
Annually issuing the Perl White Camel award
TPRF have been an official organization in the Google Summer of Code.
Governance
The day-to-day business of TPF is run by several committees including the grants committee and conferences committee. These committees report to the TPF steering committee, which directs the operations of TPF. All of these groups are overseen by a board of directors. All TPF members, including the board of directors, are volunteers.
Legal and licensing
The foundation acts as the legal steward for the Artistic License, the open-source license originally authored by Larry Wall for the Perl core. In this capacity, the foundation maintains the license text and oversaw the development of the Artistic License 2.0 to improve legal clarity and compatibility with other free software licenses.
In 2007, the foundation (operating under its legal name, Yet Another Society) participated as an amicus curiae in the landmark case Jacobsen v. Katzer.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q941805. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.
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