NAME

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

VERSION

       Version 0.003005

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.

   threshold, threshold_before, threshold_after
           use String::Copyright { threshold_after => 5 };

       Stop parsing after this many lines whithout 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 => \&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/>.