This module is built on top of the expat C library written by James Clark . The expat distribution is contained in the expat sub-directory. You may find out the version by reading expat/expat.html. The material in the expat directory is covered by your choice of the Mozilla Public License version 1.1(MPL) or Gnu Public License (GPL). If the file expat.patches in this sub-directory is non-empty, then I have made local patches to this library. The expat.patches file will contain the differences from the original (of the version referred to in expat/expat.html) to my patched version. Using the patch facility, you could get to my patched version from James Clark's original by applying expat.patches to it. If you are going to use this patched version of expat outside of XML::Parser, then you should refer to it as perl-expat, with a version number corresponding to that of the distribution of XML::Parser that you obtained it from.