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NAME
       String::Copyright - Representation of text-based copyright statements

VERSION
       Version 0.003014

SYNOPSIS
           use String::Copyright;

           my $copyright = copyright(<<'END');
           copr. © 1999,2000 Foo Barbaz <fb@acme.corp> and Acme Corp.
           Copyright (c) 2001,2004 Foo (work address) <foo@zorg.corp>
           Copyright 2003, Foo B. and friends
           © 2000, 2002 Foo Barbaz <foo@bar.baz>
           END

           print $copyright;

           # Copyright 1999-2000 Foo Barbaz <fb@acme.com> and Acme Corp.
           # Copyright 2000, 2002 Foo Barbaz and Acme Corp.
           # Copyright 2001, 2004 Foo (work address) <foo@zorg.org>
           # Copyright 2003 Foo B. and friends

DESCRIPTION
       String::Copyright identifies copyright statements in a string and
       serializes them in a normalized format.

OPTIONS
       Options can be set as an argument to the 'use' statement.

   threshold, threshold_before, threshold_after
           use String::Copyright { threshold_after => 5 };

       Stop parsing after this many lines without copyright information,
       before or after having found any copyright information at all.
       "threshold" sets both "threshold_before" and "threshold_after".

       By default unset: All lines are parsed.

   format( \&sub )
           use String::Copyright { format => \&GNU_style } };

           sub GNU_style {
               my ( $years, $owners ) = @_;

               return 'Copyright (C) ' . join '  ', $years || '', $owners || '';
           }

FUNCTIONS
       Exports one function: "copyright".  This module uses Exporter::Tiny to
       export functions, which allows for flexible import options; see the
       Exporter::Tiny documentation for details.

SEE ALSO
       •   Encode

       •   Exporter::Tiny

BUGS/CAVEATS/etc
       String::Copyright operates on strings, not bytes.  Data encoded as
       UTF-8, Latin1 or other formats need to be decoded to strings before
       use.

       Only ASCII characters and © (copyright sign) are directly processed.

       If copyright sign is not detected or accents or multi-byte characters
       display wrong, then most likely the data was not decoded into a string.

       If ranges or lists of years are not tidied, then maybe it contained
       non-ASCII whitespace or digits.

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 © 2005-2012, 2016, 2018, 2020-2021 Jonas Smedegaard

         Copyright © 2018, 2020-2021 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/>.

perl v5.36.0                      2022-12-17            String::Copyright(3pm)

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