NAME¶

String::Copyright - Representation of text-based copyright statements

VERSION¶

Version 0.003006

SYNOPSIS¶

    use String::Copyright;
    my $copyright = copyright(<<'END');
    copr. © 1999,2000 Foo Barbaz <fb@acme.corp> and Acme Corp.
    Copyright (c) 2001,2004 Foo (work address) <foo@zorg.corp>
    Copyright 2003, Foo B. and friends
    © 2000, 2002 Foo Barbaz <foo@bar.baz>
    END
    print $copyright;
    # Copyright 1999-2000 Foo Barbaz <fb@acme.com> and Acme Corp.
    # Copyright 2000, 2002 Foo Barbaz and Acme Corp.
    # Copyright 2001, 2004 Foo (work address) <foo@zorg.org>
    # Copyright 2003 Foo B. and friends

DESCRIPTION¶

String::Copyright Parses common styles of copyright statements and serializes in normalized format.

OPTIONS¶

Options can be set as an argument to the 'use' statement.

    use String::Copyright { threshold_after => 5 };

    use String::Copyright { format => \&NGU_style } };
    sub GNU_style {
        my ( $years, $owners ) = @_;
        return 'Copyright (C) ' . join '  ', $years || '', $owners || '';
    }

FUNCTIONS¶

Exports one function: "copyright". This module uses Exporter::Tiny to export functions, which allows for flexible import options; see the Exporter::Tiny documentation for details.

SEE ALSO¶

• Encode
• Exporter::Tiny

BUGS/CAVEATS/etc¶

String::Copyright operates on strings, not bytes. Data encoded as UTF-8, Latin1 or other formats need to be decoded to strings before use.

Only ASCII characters and © (copyright sign) are directly processed.

If copyright sign is mis-detected or accents or multi-byte characters display wrong, then most likely the data was not decoded into a string.

If ranges or lists of years are not tidied, then maybe it contained non-ASCII whitespace or digits.

AUTHOR¶

Jonas Smedegaard "<dr@jones.dk>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

Derived from App::Licensecheck originally part of the KDE SDK, originally introduced by Stefan Westerfeld "<stefan@space.twc.de>"; and on the script licensecheck2dep5 part of Debian CDBS tool, written by Jonas Smedegaard.

  Copyright © 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt
  Copyright © 2005-2012, 2016 Jonas Smedegaard

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.