NAME

       App::Licensecheck - functions for a simple license checker for source files

VERSION

       Version v3.3.9

SYNOPSIS

           use Path::Tiny;
           use App::Licensecheck;

           my $tempfile = Path::Tiny->tempfile;

           $tempfile->spew(<<EOF);
       # Dummy file simply stating some copyright and license.
       # Copyright (C) 2020, 2022  Foo Bar.
       #
       # This file is licensed under version 2 or later of the GPL.
       EOF

           my $app = App::Licensecheck->new( top_lines => 0 );  # Parse whole files

           my @output = $app->parse($tempfile);

           my $license    = $output[0];  # => is "GPL-2.0-or-later"
           my $copyrights = $output[1];  # => is "2020, 2022 Foo Bar."

DESCRIPTION

       App::Licensecheck is the core of licensecheck script to check for licenses of source
       files.  See the script for casual usage.

AUTHOR

       Jonas Smedegaard "<dr@jones.dk>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This program is based on the script "licensecheck" from the KDE SDK, originally introduced
       by Stefan Westerfeld "<stefan@space.twc.de>".

         Copyright © 2007, 2008 Adam D. Barratt

         Copyright © 2012 Francesco Poli

         Copyright © 2016-2022 Jonas Smedegaard

         Copyright © 2017-2022 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/>.