A simple CLI for quickly generating repository licenses.
Licer is installable via two distinct scripts for macOS/Linux and Windows devices respectively
macOS/Linux
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zahtec/licer/HEAD/install.sh)"Windows (PowerShell)
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser # Required only if running a remote script for the first time
irm "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zahtec/licer/HEAD/install.ps1" | iexThere are also various platform binaries availible for download on the releases page.
Usage will output if you run licer, licer -h or licer --help
Usage: licer <license>
[-d | --directory <directory>]
[-e | --email <email> (repeated)]
[-f | --file <file name>]
[-h | --help (independent)]
[-n | --name <name> (repeated)]
[-p | --project <project name>]
[-u | --url <project url>]
[-v | --version (independent)]
[-y | --year <year>]
Repeated flags are used to define multiple authors which will be inserted in-order from left to right
Example: licer mit --name Zahtec --email email@example.com -n Fireship -e email@fireship.io
The name "Zahtec" will be associated with the email "email@example.com" and "Fireship" "email@fireship.io"
Licer will automatically grab the year using the current year set on the operating system
Licer will automatically grab your name and email via the local or global git config
Licer will automatically grab the project name and url via a Cargo.toml (Rust), package.json (Node.js), or pyproject.toml (Python)
Licer will automatically write the license type to a Cargo.toml (Rust), package.json (Node.js), or pyproject.toml (Python)
List of licenses:
Licer Name Full Name Info Required
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afl Academic Free License None
agpl GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 None
apache_two Apache License 2.0 None
art Artistic License 2.0 None
boost Boost Software License 1.0 None
bsd_clear BSD 3-Clause Clear License Year, Name(s)
bsd_four BSD 4-Clause “Original” or “Old” License Year, Name(s)
bsd_three BSD 3-Clause “New” or “Revised” License Year, Name(s)
bsd_two BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License Year, Name(s)
bsd_zero BSD Zero Clause License Year, Name(s)
cc Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International None
cc_sa Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International None
cc_zero Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal None
cecill CeCILL Free Software License Agreement v2.1 None
ecl Educational Community License v2.0 None
eclipse_one Eclipse Public License 1.0 None
eclipse_two Eclipse Public License 2.0 None
eu_one European Union Public License 1.1 None
eu_two European Union Public License 1.2 None
fdl GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 None
gpl_three GNU General Public License v3.0 None
gpl_two GNU General Public License v2.0 None
isc ISC License Year, Name(s)
latex LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c None
lgpl_three GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 None
lgpl_two GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 None
micpl Microsoft Public License None
mit MIT License Year, Name(s)
mit_na MIT No Attribution Year, Name(s)
mozpl Mozilla Public License 2.0 None
mrl Microsoft Reciprocal License None
mulpl Mulan Permissive Software License, Version 2 None
ncsa University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License Year, Name(s), Project Name, Project URL
odl Open Data Commons Open Database License v1.0 None
ofl SIL Open Font License 1.1 Year, Name(s), Email(s)
osl Open Software License 3.0 None
postgres PostgreSQL License Year, Name(s)
unl The Unlicense None
upl Universal Permissive License v1.0 Year, Name(s)
vim Vim License None
zlib zlib License Year, Name(s)
Version: 0.1.0
If you have feature requests for licer, please do not hesitate and create a new issue with the "enhancement" tag.