lic

An over-engineered way to add a license to your project.

Usage

Usage: lic [-y <year>] [-a <author>] [-l <file>] [-g] [-h] <license>

Options:
  -a <author>  specify author for copyright [defaults to `git config user.name`]
  -g           commit license to git repository
  -h           show this message
  -l <file>    specify output filename [defaults to LICENSE]
  -y <year>    specify year for copyright [defaults to `date +"%Y"`]

Available licenses: AGPL3, Apache, BSD2, BSD3, GPL2, GPL3, LGPL3, MIT, Mozilla, Unlicense

Common operations:

• lic MIT - add MIT license
• lic -a "John Doe" -y 2000 MIT - add MIT license, copyright 2000 John Doe
• lic -l license.txt MIT - add MIT license using license.txt as the filename
• lic -g MIT - add MIT license, and then immediately commit it to the current git repository

Tab Completion

If you use zsh, add the directory containing lic to $path, and add the directory containing _lic to $fpath, you can get tab completion. The completion will work for all of the available licenses, as well as the options if you enter the -.

Templates

Lic comes with templates for many popular licenses, but you can add others. Just drop them in the templates/ directory, and (optionally) add placeholders for year ({{year}}) and author ({{author}}).

Testing

The included test.sh contains a test suite that can be run using shunit2.

License

BSD 2-clause