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+SUMMARY = "Perl scripting language"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.perl.org/"
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "Artistic-1.0 | GPL-1.0+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://Copying;md5=5b122a36d0f6dc55279a0ebc69f3c60b \
+		    file://Artistic;md5=2e6fd2475335af892494fe1f7327baf3"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/${BP}.tar.xz"