NAME

       Software::Copyright::Owner - Copyright owner class

VERSION

       version 0.012

SYNOPSIS

        use Software::Copyright::Owner;

        # one owner
        my $owner = Software::Copyright::Owner->new('Joe <joe@example.com>');

        $owner->name; # => is "Joe"
        $owner->email; # => is 'joe@example.com'
        $owner->identifier; # => is 'Joe'

        # stringification
        my $s = "$owner"; # => is 'Joe <joe@example.com>'

        # several owners, separated by "and" or ","
        my $owner2 = Software::Copyright::Owner->new('Joe <joe@example.com>, William, Jack and Averell');

        $owner2->name; # => is undef
        $owner2->email; # => is undef
        $owner2->record; # => is 'Joe <joe@example.com>, William, Jack and Averell'
        $owner2->identifier; # => is 'Joe <joe@example.com>, William, Jack and Averell'

        # stringification
        $s = "$owner2"; # => is 'Joe <joe@example.com>, William, Jack and Averell'

DESCRIPTION

       This class holds the name and email of a copyright holder.

CONSTRUCTOR

       The constructor can be called without argument or with a string containing a name and an
       optional email address. E.g:

        my $owner = Software::Copyright::Owner->new();
        my $owner = Software::Copyright::Owner->new('Joe');
        my $owner = Software::Copyright::Owner->new('Joe <joe@example.com>');

       It can also be called with copyright assignment involving more than one person. See
       synopsis for details.

Methods

   name
       Set or get owner's name. Note that names with Unicode characters are normalized to
       Canonical Composition (NFC). Name can be empty when the copyright owners has more that one
       name (i.e. "John Doe and Jane Doe") or if the string passed to "new()" contains unexpected
       information (like a year).

   record
       Set or get the record of a copyright. The record is set by constructor when the owner
       contains more than one name or if the owner contains unexpected information.

   identifier
       Returns "name" or "record".

   email
       Set or get owner's email

   stringify
       Returns a string containing name (or record) and email (if any) of the copyright owner.

   Operator overload
       Operator "" is overloaded to call "stringify".

AUTHOR

       Dominique Dumont

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is Copyright (c) 2022 by Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>.

       This is free software, licensed under:

         The GNU General Public License, Version 3, June 2007