Generate a license file for a project
Project description
Lice generates license files. No more hunting down licenses from other projects.
Installation
About what you’d expect:
easy_install lice
or:
pip install lice
Overview
Generate a BSD-3 license, the default:
$ lice Copyright (c) 2013, Jeremy Carbaugh All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, ...
Generate an MIT license:
$ lice mit The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2013 Jeremy Carbaugh Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy ...
Generate a BSD-3 license, specifying the year and organization to be used:
$ lice -y 2012 -o "Sunlight Foundation" Copyright (c) 2012, Sunlight Foundation All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, ...
If organization is not specified, lice will first attempt to use git config to find your name. If not found, it will use the value of the $USER environment variable. If the project name is not specified, the name of the current directory is used. Year will default to the current year.
You can see what variables are available to you for any of the licenses:
$ lice --vars mit The mit license template contains the following variables: year organization
I want XXXXXXXXX license in here!
Great! Is it a license that is commonly used? If so, open an issue or, if you are feeling generous, fork and submit a pull request.
Usage
usage: lice [-h] [-o ORGANIZATION] [-p PROJECT] [-t TEMPLATE_PATH] [-y YEAR] [--vars] [license] positional arguments: license the license to generate, one of: agpl3, apache, bsd2, bsd3, cddl, cc0, epl, gpl2, gpl3, lgpl, mit, mpl optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -o ORGANIZATION, --org ORGANIZATION organization, defaults to .gitconfig or os.environ["USER"] -p PROJECT, --proj PROJECT name of project, defaults to name of current directory -t TEMPLATE_PATH, --template TEMPLATE_PATH path to license template file -y YEAR, --year YEAR copyright year --vars list template variables for specified license
Changelog
0.4
Use ASCII instead of Unicode for templates (thanks to tabletcorry)
Add Academic Free License (“AFL”) v. 3.0 (thanks to brianray)
Add ISC (thanks to masklinn)
Add tox support for testing (thanks to lukaszb)
Show defaults when listing template variables
0.3
Generate source file headers for some liceneses
Discover available licenses at runtime
Use getpass module for retrieving username
Better unicode support for Python 3 (thanks to astagi)
Add Creative Commons licenese (thanks to rjnienaber)
0.2
Add AGPL 3 license
Add extra templates variables to GPL 2 and 3
0.1
Initial release
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