1Software::License(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Software::License(3)
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6 Software::License - packages that provide templated software licenses
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9 version 0.104002
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12 my $license = Software::License::Discordian->new({
13 holder => 'Ricardo Signes',
14 });
15 print $output_fh $license->fulltext;
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19 This module is part of CPAN toolchain, or is treated as such. As such,
20 it follows the agreement of the Perl Toolchain Gang to require no newer
21 version of perl than v5.8.1. This version may change by agreement of
22 the Toolchain Gang, but for now is governed by the Lancaster Consensus
23 <https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-
24 site/blob/master/lancaster-consensus.md> of 2013.
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27 new
28 my $license = $subclass->new(\%arg);
29 This method returns a new license object for the given license class.
31 Valid arguments are:
32 holder
34 the holder of the copyright; required
35 year
37 the year of copyright; defaults to current year
38 program
40 the name of software for use in the middle of a sentence
41 Program
43 the name of software for use in the beginning of a sentence
44 "program" and "Program" arguments may be specified both, either one or
46 none. Each argument, if not specified, is defaulted to another one, or
47 to properly capitalized "this program", if both arguments are omitted.
48 year
50 holder
51 These methods are attribute readers.
52 program
54 Name of software for using in the middle of a sentence.
55 The method returns value of "program" constructor argument (if it
57 evaluates as true, i. e. defined, non-empty, non-zero), or value of
58 "Program" constructor argument (if it is true), or "this program" as
59 the last resort.
60 Program
62 Name of software for using in the middle of a sentence.
63 The method returns value of "Program" constructor argument (if it is
65 true), or value of "program" constructor argument (if it is true), or
66 "This program" as the last resort.
67 name
69 This method returns the name of the license, suitable for shoving in
70 the middle of a sentence, generally with a leading capitalized "The."
71 url
73 This method returns the URL at which a canonical text of the license
74 can be found, if one is available. If possible, this will point at
75 plain text, but it may point to an HTML resource.
76 notice
78 This method returns a snippet of text, usually a few lines, indicating
79 the copyright holder and year of copyright, as well as an indication of
80 the license under which the software is distributed.
81 license
83 This method returns the full text of the license.
84 fulltext
86 This method returns the complete text of the license, preceded by the
87 copyright notice.
88 version
90 This method returns the version of the license. If the license is not
91 versioned, this method will return false.
92 meta_name
94 This method returns the string that should be used for this license in
95 the CPAN META.yml file, according to the CPAN Meta spec v1, or undef if
96 there is no known string to use.
97 This method may also be invoked as "meta_yml_name" for legacy reasons.
99 meta2_name
101 This method returns the string that should be used for this license in
102 the CPAN META.json or META.yml file, according to the CPAN Meta spec
103 v2, or undef if there is no known string to use. If this method does
104 not exist, and "meta_name" returns open_source, restricted,
105 unrestricted, or unknown, that value will be used.
106 spdx_expression
108 This method should return the string with the spdx identifier as
109 indicated by <https://spdx.org/licenses/>
110
112 If you have an entry in a META.yml or META.json file, or similar
113 metadata, and want to look up the Software::License class to use, there
114 are useful tools in Software::LicenseUtils.
115
117 • register licenses with aliases to allow $registry->get('gpl', 2);
118
120 The specific license:
121 • Software::License::AGPL_3
123 • Software::License::Apache_1_1
125 • Software::License::Apache_2_0
127 • Software::License::Artistic_1_0
129 • Software::License::Artistic_2_0
131 • Software::License::BSD
133 • Software::License::CC0_1_0
135 • Software::License::Custom
137 • Software::License::EUPL_1_1
139 • Software::License::EUPL_1_2
141 • Software::License::FreeBSD
143 • Software::License::GFDL_1_2
145 • Software::License::GFDL_1_3
147 • Software::License::GPL_1
149 • Software::License::GPL_2
151 • Software::License::GPL_3
153 • Software::License::LGPL_2_1
155 • Software::License::LGPL_3_0
157 • Software::License::MIT
159 • Software::License::Mozilla_1_0
161 • Software::License::Mozilla_1_1
163 • Software::License::Mozilla_2_0
165 • Software::License::None
167 • Software::License::OpenSSL
169 • Software::License::Perl_5
171 • Software::License::PostgreSQL
173 • Software::License::QPL_1_0
175 • Software::License::SSLeay
177 • Software::License::Sun
179 • Software::License::Zlib
181 Extra licenses are maintained on CPAN in separate modules.
183 The App::Software::License module comes with a script software-license
185 <https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-Software-
186 License/script/software-license>, which provides a command-line
187 interface to Software::License.
188
190 Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>
191
193 • Alex Kapranoff <kappa@yandex.ru>
194 • Andrew Grangaard <granny-github@ofb.net>
196 • Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>
198 • Bernardo Rechea <brbpub@gmail.com>
200 • Bernhard Amann <bernhard@icsi.berkeley.edu>
202 • bowtie <bowtie@cpan.org>
204 • Brian Cassidy <bricas@cpan.org>
206 • Brian Phillips <bphillips@digitalriver.com>
208 • Craig Scrivner <scrivner@geology.cwu.edu>
210 • Curtis Brandt <curtis@cpan.org>
212 • Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
214 • David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>
216 • David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
218 • Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>
220 • Dylan William Hardison <dylan@hardison.net>
222 • Flavio Poletti <flavio@polettix.it>
224 • Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>
226 • Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>
228 • Justin Baker <me@jbaker.dev>
230 • Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>
232 • Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
234 • Kenichi Ishigaki <ishigaki@cpan.org>
236 • Kivanc Yazan <kivancyazan@gmail.com>
238 • Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com>
240 • magnolia <magnolia.k@me.com>
242 • mikegrb <mgreb@linode.com>
244 • Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com>
246 • Nicolas Rochelemagne <rochelemagne@cpanel.net>
248 • Olivier Mengué <dolmen@cpan.org>
250 • Pablo Rodríguez González <pablo.rodriguez.gonzalez@gmail.com>
252 • Shlomi Fish <shlomif@iglu.org.il>
254 • srchulo <violapiratejunky@gmail.com>
256 • Syohei YOSHIDA <syohex@gmail.com>
258 • Tomasz Konojacki <me@xenu.pl>
260 • Van de Bugger <van.de.bugger@gmail.com>
262 • Wesley Schwengle <wesley@schwengle.net>
264
266 This software is copyright (c) 2022 by Ricardo Signes.
267 This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
269 the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
270perl v5.36.0 2023-01-20 Software::License(3)