NAME

       Software::LicenseUtils - little useful bits of code for licensey things

VERSION

       version 0.103008

METHODS

   guess_license_from_pod
         my @guesses = Software::LicenseUtils->guess_license_from_pod($pm_text);

       Given text containing POD, like a .pm file, this method will attempt to guess at the
       license under which the code is available.  This method will either a list of
       Software::License classes (or instances) or false.

       Calling this method in scalar context is a fatal error.

   guess_license_from_meta
         my @guesses = Software::LicenseUtils->guess_license_from_meta($meta_str);

       Given the content of the META.(yml|json) file found in a CPAN distribution, this method
       makes a guess as to which licenses may apply to the distribution.  It will return a list
       of zero or more Software::License instances or classes.

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

       Create a new Software::License object from the license specified with "short_name". Known
       short license names are "GPL-*", "LGPL-*" , "Artistic" and "Artistic-*"

AUTHOR

       Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Ricardo Signes.

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