String::Copyright(3pm)

Usage

    use String::Copyright;
    my $copyright = copyright(<<'END');
    copr. © 1999,2000 Foo Barbaz <[email protected]> and Acme Corp.
    Copyright (c) 2001,2004 Foo (work address) <[email protected]>
    Copyright 2003, Foo B. and friends
    © 2000, 2002 Foo Barbaz <[email protected]>
    END
    print $copyright;
    # Copyright 1999-2000 Foo Barbaz <[email protected]> and Acme Corp.
    # Copyright 2000, 2002 Foo Barbaz and Acme Corp.
    # Copyright 2001, 2004 Foo (work address) <[email protected]>
    # Copyright 2003 Foo B. and friends

Version

Version 0.003014

Overview

String::Copyright identifies copyright statements in a string and serializes them in a normalized format.

Options

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

threshold, threshold_before, threshold_after

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

Stop parsing after this many lines without copyright information, before or after having found any copyright information at all. "threshold" sets both "threshold_before" and "threshold_after".

By default unset: All lines are parsed.

format( \&sub )

    use String::Copyright { format => \&GNU_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.

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 not 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.

Copyright and license

This program is based on the script "licensecheck" from the KDE SDK, originally introduced by Stefan Westerfeld "<[email protected]>".

  Copyright © 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt
  Copyright © 2005-2012, 2016, 2018, 2020-2021 Jonas Smedegaard
  Copyright © 2018, 2020-2021 Purism SPC

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero 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 Affero General Public License for more details.

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

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 2 times.