NAME

       Software::LicenseMoreUtils - More utilities and a summary for Software::License

VERSION

       version 1.005

SYNOPSIS

        use Software::LicenseMoreUtils;

        my $lic = Software::LicenseMoreUtils->new_from_short_name({
           short_name => 'Apache-2.0', # or GPL-2+, Artistic-2 ...
           holder => 'X. Ample'
        });

        # On Debian, return a license summary, returns license text elsewhere
        my $text = $lic->summary_or_text;

        # returns license full text
        my $text = $lic->text;

DESCRIPTION

       This module provides more utilities for Software::License:

       •   Method "new_from_short_name" returns a Software::LicenseMoreUtils::LicenseWithSummary object that
           provides all functionalities of "Software::License::*" objects and a summary on some Linux
           distribution (see below).

       •   "new_from_short_name" accepts more short names than Software::LicenseUtils

       •   "new_from_short_name" accepts "or any later version" variant of GPL licenses. When a short name like
           "GPL-3+" is used, the license summary contains "or (at your option) any later version" statement.

       •   Software::License::LGPL-2 license is also provided. Even though license "LGPL-2.1" is preferred over
           "LGPL-2", some software in Debian use "LGPL-2".

License summary

       In some distribution like Debian, all packages should come with the full text of the licenses of the
       package software.

       To avoid many duplication of long license text, the text of the most common licenses are provided in
       "/usr/share/common-licenses" directory. Then the license text of a package need only to provide a summary
       of the license that refer to the location of the common license.

       All summaries are provided for Debian (so for Ubuntu). Other distributions are welcome to send pull
       request for their license summaries.

Methods

   new_from_short_name
        my $license_object = Software::LicenseMoreUtils->new_from_short_name({
             short_name => 'GPL-1',
             holder => 'X. Ample'
        }) ;

       Returns a new Software::LicenseMoreUtils::LicenseWithSummary object which is a Software::License wrapped
       with a summary. This is a drop-in replacement for the Software::License object as all methods are
       delegated to the underlying Software::License object.

       Known short license names are "GPL-*", "LGPL-*" , and their "or later version" variant "GPL-*+",
       "LGPL-*+" "Artistic" and "Artistic-*". Unlike vanilla Software::License, this module accepts license name
       with "-" (e.g. "GPL-2") along with "_" (e.g. ""GPL_2"")

       If the short name is not known, this method tries to create a license object with "Software::License" and
       the specified short name (e.g. "Software::License::MIT" with "short_name => 'MIT'" or
       "Software::License::Apache_2_0" with "short_name => 'Apache-2.0'").

AUTHOR

       Dominique Dumont

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2018 by Dominique Dumont.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.