Word frequencies -- Python or Perl for performance?

[Bengt Richter]

On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:50:32 +1100, Tim Churches <tchur at optushome.com.au> wrote:
[...]
>
>I concur with Bengt's suggested approach, plus you might want to use
>something like the Porter Stemmer algorithm to convert words to their
>"base" forms eg stepped -> step
>
>See http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/python.txt for a
>Python implementation.
>
Any idea on the license status of that? I saw nothing mentioned
in the text itself except and apparent reference to a book.

E.g., if I rewrote it to my taste, could I put the result under PSF
if I wanted to?

Regards,
Bengt Richter