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 #!.
See the latest instructions on the releases page.
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
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
Dan Persons ([email protected])
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2017 Dan Persons ([email protected])
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.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.