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+.\" Copyright 2014 Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+.\" the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, 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 General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.\"
+.TH COPYRIGHT\-STATEMENT\-LINT 1
+.SH NAME
+copyright\-statement\-lint \- check copyright statements in source files
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B copyright\-statement\-lint
+checks that the copyright statements in files given to it.
+It verifies that each file has a copyright statement,
+and that at least one of the statements in the file has a year
+that matches the date of the latest git commit.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.SH EXAMPLE
+To check your source tree, run this at the root of your git checkout:
+.PP
+.nf
+.RS
+copyright\-statement\-lint $(git ls\-files)
+.RE
+.fi