licensed

licensed

⚖ licensed is a simple, interactive command line interface to help you choose and quickly add a LICENSE file to your project.

Setup

Make sure you have NodeJS (npm 5.2+) installed on your computer. Then, setup is as simple as:

$ npx licensed

If you've got an older version of node (npm version < 5.2) that doesn't yet have npx, here's a more traditional setup:

$ npm i -g licensed

Usage

After installation, navigate to your project directory ie. the directory you want your LICENSE file to be placed. Then:

Usage:
    $ licensed                  # Brings up an option to start a questionnaire or choose from a list of available licenses
    $ licensed <license-name>   # Brings prompt to enter your name
    $ licensed <license-name> <your-full-name> [--year | -y] <year>
    $ licensed [--list | -l]

Options:
    --year, -y <year>   Manually enter year the license is in effect
    --list, -l          List all available licenses
    --help              Show this screen
    --version           Show version

Examples:
    $ licensed mit "Mihir Chaturvedi"
    $ licensed apache
    $ licensed --year 2013-2018

Development

Run:

$ git clone https://github.com/plibither8/licensed.git
$ cd licensed
$ npm link

This will setup a symbolic link to the CLI. Any changes in source files will now be reflected when running the licensed command.

To lint your code, run

$ npm run lint

...and to build your files to /lib directory, run

$ npm run build

Available licenses to choose from (currently):

• Apache 2.0
• BSD-2-Clause
• BSD-3-Clause
• GNU General Public License
• ISC
• MIT
• Mozilla Public License 2.0

Contributions

• If you are aware of more licenses, help expand the list by suggesting or creating a pull request with the license text and name added to the assets/licenses, src/licenses.js and other respective files.
• Any other positive suggestions for this project are welcome :)

Make sure to check out CONTRIBUTING.md.

Acknowledgements

• Manuel Spagnolo for implementing the questionnaire.