NAME

Pod::Weaver::Section::Legal::Complicated - add a pod section with multiple authors, copyright owners and licenses in a file basis

VERSION

version 1.00

SYNOPSIS

In your weaver.ini

  [Legal::Complicated]

DESCRIPTION

This plugin is aimed at distributions that have several files, each of them with possibly different authors, copyright owners and licenses.

It will look for these values in comments of the source code (analyzed through a ppi_document) with the following form:

  # AUTHOR:  John Doe <john.doe@otherside.com>
  # AUTHOR:  Mary Jane <mary.jane@thisside.com>
  # OWNER:   University of Over Here
  # OWNER:   Mary Jane
  # LICENSE: GPL_3

This example would generate the following POD:

  =head1 Legal

  =head2 Authors

  John Doe <john.doe@otherside.com>
  Mary Jane <mary.jane@thisside.com>

  =head2 Copyright and License

  This software is copyright of University of Over Here, and Mary Jane, and
  released under the license of The GNU General Public License, Version 3,
  June 2007

Note that this plugin makes a distinction between the authors (whoever wrote the code), and the actual copyright owners (possibly the person who paid them to write it).

I am not a lawyer myself, any feedback on better ways to deal with this kind of situations is most welcome.

ATTRIBUTES

add_dist_license

If true, it will also add the distribution license to each of the files. Defaults to false.

head

Sets the heading level for the legal section. Defaults to 1.

AUTHOR

Carnë Draug <cdraug@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by Carnë Draug.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007