priestd09/license

Generate license files

license

Install

go get -u github.com/nishanths/license

Create licenses from the command-line.

• Supports all the licenses available on GitHub
• Does not need network access (except on first run)
• Good defaults for name and year on the license; easy to customize when needed

Usage

Generate a license

To print a license to stdout, run license followed by the license name:

license mit

Save to file

Use the -o flag to save the license to a file:

license -o LICENSE.txt mit

Customize name and year

license -year=2013 -name=Alice isc

If unspecified, the current year is used.

To determine the name, license uses the following in order. Since you likely have your name set in .gitconfig, you can always omit the -name flags.

- command line flags: -name, -n
- environment variable: LICENSE_FULL_NAME
- gitconfig and hgconfig
- "os/user".Current()
- empty string

Authentication

If you receive a 403 Forbidden: API rate limit exceeded while updating licenses, use your GitHub username and a personal access token (no scopes required).

license -auth username:e0a8a01b1f125a785ea3d7ada98eb6a018e2fe4f -update

(The token above will not work.)

More docs

Help is available by runnning license -help

View the list of available licenses by running license -list

Contributing

Pull requests for new features, bug fixes, and suggestions are welcome!

License

MIT