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!