licins 1.1

Insert commented licenses into source files

Licins is a tool for inserting commented software licenses into source code. It comes with modules for popular open source licenses, and can use config files for persistent options. Licenses are inserted at the beginnigs of files, but after any lines starting with #!. Options for copyright name, encoding, signature, and other add-ons.

Options

usage: licins [-h] [--version] [--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

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