Software::License(3)

NAME
Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses

VERSION
version 0.103004

SYNOPSIS
  my $license = Software::License::Discordian->new({
    holder => 'Ricardo Signes',
  });

  print $output_fh $license->fulltext;

METHODS

  new
  my $license = $subclass->new(\%arg);

This method returns a new license object for the given license class. Valid arguments are:

  holder - the holder of the copyright; required
  year   - the year of copyright; defaults to current year

  year

  holder
These methods are attribute readers.

  name
This method returns the name of the license, suitable for shoving in the middle of a sentence, generally with a leading capitalized "The."

  url
This method returns the URL at which a canonical text of the license can be found, if one is available. If possible, this will point at plain text, but it may point to an HTML resource.

  notice
This method returns a snippet of text, usually a few lines, indicating the copyright holder and year of copyright, as well as an indication of the license under which the software is distributed.

  license
This method returns the full text of the license.

  fulltext
This method returns the complete text of the license, preceded by the copyright notice.

  version
This method returns the version of the license. If the license is not versioned, this method will return false.

  meta_name
This method returns the string that should be used for this license in the CPAN META.yml file, according to the CPAN Meta spec v1, or undef if there is no known string to use.

This method may also be invoked as "meta_yml_name" for legacy reasons.

  meta2_name
This method returns the string that should be used for this license in the CPAN META.json or META.yml file, according to the CPAN Meta spec v2, or undef if there is no known string to use. If this method does not exist, and "meta_name" returns open_source, restricted, unrestricted, or unknown, that value will be used.

LOOKING UP LICENSE CLASSES
If you have an entry in a META.yml or META.json file, or similar metadata, and want to look up the Software::License class to use, there are useful tools in Software::LicenseUtils.

TODO

•   register licenses with aliases to allow $registry->get('gpl', 2);

SEE ALSO
The specific license:

•   Software::License::AGPL_3

•   Software::License::Apache_1_1

•   Software::License::Apache_2_0

•   Software::License::Artistic_1_0

•   Software::License::Artistic_2_0

•   Software::License::BSD

•   Software::License::CC0

•   Software::License::FreeBSD

•   Software::License::GFDL_1_2

•   Software::License::GPL_1

•   Software::License::GPL_2

•   Software::License::GPL_3

•   Software::License::LGPL_2_1

•   Software::License::LGPL_3_0

•   Software::License::MIT

•   Software::License::Mozilla_1_0

•   Software::License::Mozilla_1_1

•   Software::License::None

•   Software::License::OpenSSL

•   Software::License::Perl_5

•   Software::License::QPL_1_0

•   Software::License::SSLeay

•   Software::License::Sun

•   Software::License::Zlib

AUTHOR
Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 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.