NAME

Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses

VERSION

version 0.008

SYNOPSIS

  my $license = Software::License::Discordian->new({
    holder => 'Ricardo Signes',
  });

  print $output_fh $license->fulltext;

DESCRIPTION

METHODS

new

  my $license = $subclass->new(\%arg);

This method returns a new license object for the given license class. Valid arguments are:

  holder - the holder of the copyright; required
  year   - the year of copyright; defaults to current year

year

holder

These methods are attribute readers.

name

This method returns the name of the license, suitable for shoving in the middle of a sentence, generally with a leading capitalized "The."

url

This method returns the URL at which a canonical text of the license can be found, if one is available. If possible, this will point at plain text, but it may point to an HTML resource.

notice

This method returns a snippet of text, usually a few lines, indicating the copyright holder and year of copyright, as well as an indication of the license under which the software is distributed.

license

This method returns the full text of the license.

fulltext

This method returns the complete text of the license, preceded by the copyright notice.

version

This method returns the version of the license. If the license is not versioned, this method will return false.

meta_yml_name

This method returns the string that should be used for this license in the CPAN META.yml file, or undef if there is no known string to use.

TODO

• register licenses with aliases to allow $registry->get('gpl', 2);

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2008 by Ricardo SIGNES.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Software::License

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Software::License