So, you’re using Perl? For web applications? You’re not alone, many people do the same, but…
no one knows!
So many people use Perl for so many web projects, but only very few people actually show or tell it.
We (the Padre IRC channel) shortly discovered that there are plenty more or less “official” icons and buttons for showing this to the world:
The Perl foundation (TPF) gives us
and 
And O’Reilly licensed some camels for free usage:
and 
and 
and 
(and some others)
All of them have their licenses but as a summary one could say that you could put them on your website if you
- Run a non-commercial project (most but not all are also approved for commercial projects)
- and make the graphic a link to http://www.perl.org (Perl foundation buttons) or http://www.perl.com (O’Reilly buttons)
Please follow the links above and read the full license before using them.
Gabor Szabo colltected some Powered-by-Perl icons here but I don’t know about the sources an licensing. You might violate TPF, O’Reilly or others rights when using them, so add them on your own risk.
I like this one 
. If you got any rights on it, please tell be and I’ll remove it.
Why should you promote Perl?
Why are you using Perl?
It’s a great language but too few people are using it.
(Nearly) every PHP project is using “.php” – URLs which tell people: This (maybe great) site is running PHP!
But Perl based sites? They use mod_perl (which has no file extension by default) or CGI-scripts (which aren’t recognized as Perl scripts).
It would be great if you’ld add one of the buttons to your Perl projects. If you don’t want it on every page, simply add it to the about, imprint or contact page.
If you’re not allowed to add a button (maybe it’s not your project but you’re managing it), you might be allowed to add it to the Perl Foundation list of Perl users – it’s free and it’s free advertising for your company or project.
You don’t have any Perl based website?
But you might know someone who runs a Perl based project or website! Tell him (or her) to add a button or point her/him to this blog post.
