NAME

String::License - detect source code license statements in a text string

VERSION

Version v0.0.11

SYNOPSIS

use String::License;
use String::License::Naming::Custom;

my $string = 'Licensed under same terms as Perl itself';

my $expressed  = String::License->new( string => $string );
my $expression = $expressed->as_text;  # => "Perl"

my $desc        = String::License::Naming::Custom->new;
my $described   = String::License->new( string => $string, naming => $desc );
my $description = $described->as_text;  # => "The Perl 5 License"

DESCRIPTION

String::License identifies license statements in a string and serializes them in a normalized format.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

my $licensed = String::License->new( string => 'Licensed under GPLv2' );

Accepts named arguments, and constructs and returns a String::License object.

The following options are recognized:

string => STRING

The scalar string to parse for licensing information.

naming => OBJ

A String::License::Naming object, used to define license naming conventions.

By default uses String::License::Naming::SPDX.

Since instantiation of naming schemes is expensive, there can be a significant speed boost in passing a pre-initialized naming object when processing multiple strings.

METHODS

as_text

Returns identified licensing patterns as a string, either structured as SPDX License Expressions, or with scheme-less naming as a short description.

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 © 2016-2023 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/>.