licins

licins is a tool for inserting commented software licenses into source code. It comes with modules for popular open source licenses. Use ~/.config/licins.conf for persistent options. Licenses are inserted at the beginning of files, but after any lines starting with #!.

INSTALLING

See the latest instructions on the releases page.

OPTIONS

usage: licins [-h] [--list] [-l LICENSE] [-t LICTYPE] [-c COMMENT]
              [-C COMMENTEND] [-d PROGDESC] [-n CNAME] [-y CYEAR]
              [-p PREFIX] [-e ENCODING] [-s SIGNATURE]
              [FILE [FILE ...]]

positional arguments:
  FILE           specify files in which to insert licenses

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --version      show program's version number and exit
  --list         return a list of available licenses
  -l LICENSE     set which license to use
  -t LICTYPE     set license type
  -c COMMENT     set the comment string
  -C COMMENTEND  set the comment end string
  -d PROGDESC    set a program description line
  -n CNAME       set the copyright name
  -y CYEAR       set the copyright year (default: current year)
  -p PREFIX      set the first line (e.g. '#!/bin/bash)'
  -e ENCODING    add an encoding line
  -s SIGNATURE   add a signature line to follow the (c) name

Always put multi-word option arguments in single quotes! Use
~/.config/licins.conf for persistent options.

==== Available license modules: ====

apache    : The Apache 2.0 license
bsd2      : The Berkeley Software Distribution license v2
bsd3      : The Berkeley Software Distribution license v3
gfdl1-2   : The GNU Free Documentation License v1.2
gfdl1-3   : The GNU Free Documentation License v1.3
gpl2      : The GNU General Public License v2+
gpl3      : The Gnu General Public License v3
lgpl2     : The GNU Library General Public License v2+
lgpl2-1   : The GNU Library General Public License v2.1+
lgpl3     : The GNU Library General Public License v3
mit       : The MIT License

EXAMPLES

licins -l mit -n 'Dan Persons' -p '#!/usr/bin/env python' *.py
licins -l gpl2 -n 'John Exampleton' -c '/*' -C '*/' example.c
licins -l gpl3 -t full -c '' LICENSE
licins iwrotethisawhileago.pl
licins *.py

AUTHOR

Dan Persons (dpersonsdev@gmail.com)

COPYRIGHT

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.