I've been thinking about this letter for a while now.

There was a time (an eternity in IT age) where you did a lot for Perl and I thank you so much for this

But time passed and Perl has lost its value to your eyes.

Thanks to you Perl inherited a logo: the camel But because of you, Perl actually never had a logo at all

Over the years, you never ever made the Perl camel open enough for us (Perl community) to freely use or modify. Consequently, we are in a very uncomfortable position.

Let's just use a new logo, what's the point?

No, it's not that simple and we were never able to achieve this.

As of today, we are torn between:

- Your camel that we are not allowed to use

- A shadowed camel derived from your camel, still problematic even if it's de facto used everywhere

- An onion that is not Perl but foundation logo (and not even free to use/modify)

- A raptor that some people don't like or don't recognize well the association

- Various other attempts

It's a long standing problem with numerous discussions, attempts and continuous frustrations for us.

Now, the thing is, only YOU can fix this

And it's time.

So I'm asking solemnly, free the Perl camel! And do it with a nice and clear license.

#FreeThePerlCamel

Please.

Thibault

Notes: it was sent to permissions@oreilly.com, I don't have an answer yet