Package: lice
Lice generates license files. No more hunting down licenses from other projects.InstallationAbout what you’d expect:pip install liceOverviewGenerate 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,
...Generate a BSD-3 license, formatted for python source file:$ lice -l py

# Copyright (c) 2012, Sunlight Foundation
#
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
...Generate a python source file with a BSD-3 license commented in the header:$ lice -l py -f test
$ ls
test.py
$ cat test.py

# Copyright (c) 2012, Sunlight Foundation
#
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification,
...Generate a source file (language detected by -f  extension):$ lice -f test.c && cat test.c
/*
 * 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 usegit configto 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
  organizationI 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.Usageusage: 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
  -l LANGUAGE, --language LANGUAGE
                        format output for language source file, one of: js, f,
                        css, c, m, java, py, cc, h, html, lua, erl, rb, sh,
                        f90, hpp, cpp, pl, txt [default is not formatted (txt)]
  -f OFILE, --file OFILE Name of the output source file (with -l, extension can be omitted)
  --vars                list template variables for specified licenseChangelog0.6Add PowerShell support (thanks todanijeljw)Add Rust support (thanks toalex179ohm)Bugfixes (thanks toganziqim)Added support for Python 3.7 and 3.8, removed support for Python 3.4Tested against Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8.0.5Add support for SCM alias for lisp-style comments (thanks toejmr)Additional support for WTFPL and GPL2 licenses (thanks toejmr)Support for Python 3.4 and 3.5 (thanks toejmr)0.4Use ASCII instead of Unicode for templates (thanks totabletcorry)Add Academic Free License (“AFL”) v. 3.0 (thanks tobrianray)Add ISC (thanks tomasklinn)Add tox support for testing (thanks tolukaszb)Show defaults when listing template variables0.3Generate source file headers for some licenesesDiscover available licenses at runtimeUse getpass module for retrieving usernameBetter unicode support for Python 3 (thanks toastagi)Add Creative Commons licenese (thanks torjnienaber)0.2Add AGPL 3 licenseAdd extra templates variables to GPL 2 and 30.1Initial release