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lice-js

v0.2.0

Published

A tool to generate common FOSS LICENSE files

Readme

==== lice-js

A javascript port of lice originally by jcarbaugh

Lice generates license files. No more hunting down licenses from other projects.

Installation

npm install licejs

or:

git clone [email protected]:licenses/lice-js.git
cd lice-js

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 an apache license header , specifying the year and organization to be used:

 $ licejs gpl3 -y 2013 -o "aplomb bomb inc" -p "mySuperProjectName" --header
mySuperProjectName
Copyright (C) 2013  aplomb bomb inc

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
...

##Defaults

If no arguments are provided for available variables, the following will be used:

| Variable | Default | | -------------------- |--------------------: | | owner / organization | git user.name || $USER env variable | | year | current year | | project | current working directory| | license type | bsd3 |

You can change any of these by using --config in the cli:

licejs --config.organization "The Interesing Co."

then if you want an MIT license for example:

$ lice mit
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 The Interesing Co.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
...

The Cli will check the config file first. Then if no value is found for a particular key it will get the values specified in table above.

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 in the license-templates repo.

Usage

Usage: license [-h]
license [-l]
license [ -o [OWNER] -p [PROJECT] -y [YEAR] ] [license] [--header]
license [--config[.key <VALUE>]]

Options:
  -h, --help          show this help menu                                                                                     
  -l, --list          list all available license templates                                                                    
  -o, --organization  the organisation/owner that holds the copy[right,left]
  -p, --project       the name of the project
  -y, --year          copyright year 
  --config            set default values: usage --config.key value
  	available:[year], [project], [licenseType], [organisation]
  --header            just get the license header
  

TODO:

Changelog

0.1

  • Initial release