lisense

Sensible repository licensing for Humans

Sir Isaac Newton once said that

Open source simply isn't open source without a proper license. So add a license. Always.

GitHub recently launched their License API, it's still in preview stage though. They also released a blog post showing Open source license usage on GitHub.com, which is enough to convice you that why adding a license is sine qua non.

Newton and Open Source, Respect both, let us.

- Yoda

lisense in action

Installation

pip install lisense

lisense. What?

lisense is a command-line tool which helps you license your projects.

• Lets you have a global configuration. Use your defaults, anywhere, anytime.
• Guides you about using a particular license, better than you uncle.
• And yes! Generates licenses.

lisense. Controls?

Generating a license is more easy than doing nothing.

• lisense list

  List all available licenses.

• lisense guide [license]

  Provide guidance about a license. Description, use cases etc.

• lisense setup

  Setup global lisense configurations. Default license and owner name.

• lisense new [license] --owner="OWNER NAME"

  Generates new license. Both the license and owner arguments are optional. Uses defaults when not supplied.

Automatic extra context variable handling

Almost all the licenses have two common fields in them, owner and year. Some of them have extra fields also. For example, the GPL-v2 license has a field description, which asks for the description of the project.

Lisense uses jinja2's low level meta API to parse the abstract syntax tree of the template and interactively asks users to fill extra fields, if any.

So, you don't have to worry about it.

Dependencies

• docopt - command-line argument parsing
• jinja2 - generate licenses from license templates
• xtermcolor - colorful messages on terminal

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Built with 💕 by Pravendra Singh