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Maybe I'm altruistic, but this is scratching a personal itch for me. I'm too lazy to update web pages by hand, so I spent four or five times as long coming up even with this small utility!
Also, by making the source open and free (hopefully that bypasses an argument there), other programmers can contribute ideas and code and fix things that I don't even know are wrong!
This software falls under the Artistic License. You're free to take it and use it as you see fit, but if you make changes and distribute them, you need to distribute the original software and stuff intact. If you want more detail, the license itself ships with Perl -- and if you don't have Perl, you're unlikely to get much use out of QDMerge!
This software is in development right now, and I won't warranty it against making things blow up and go boom in your computer (but that is pretty unlikely). If you can use it, go for it! In fact, if you want to modify it for your own purposes, go ahead. I'd like to know about it, and it would be nice to see what modifications you have made, but I won't come over to your house and force the issue.
N.B.: If you are using QDMerge for commercial purposes, you really ought to let me know. I would like you to donate a chunk of change you think is fair to something like the FSF or Debian or maybe even Opensource, just to keep this sort of thing going.
These are also good places to go for information. Besides that, check out Linux, Slashdot, Everything 2, and Freshmeat for more on free software and Linux and other cool stuff I like. Jellybean is another weird Perl-enabled project you might enjoy.
Some sites using QDMerge to generate pages are Nitrozac Boot Squad and Joris' interesting projects page. Let me know if you're using it, and I can put a link to you here.
That's it -- thanks for reading this far!
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