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Small Lua-based utility that generates license file in your current directory.

Installation

LuaRocks

Use the following command:

sudo luarocks install licensegen

Manual

1. Clone this project
2. (optional) Add directory of this project to your $PATH variable
3. Use licensegen or lua licensegen.lua

Usage

licensegen <licensename> --<arg1>=<val1> --<arg2>=<val2> ...

There are also some options that do not create license file but output useful information:

• -h or --help - Show help page
• -v or --version - Show version
• -a or --aliases - Show aliases
• --cat or --print - output license to stdout (do not create license file)
• -i or --info - Show detailed info about the license
• --list or --licenses - List all licenses
• --cfg or --config - Show config directory

Replace arguments must be set in the following format: --<arg>=<text>, f.e. --owner=username or --owner="Your Full Name". All arguments (with some exceptions) can be set in config and overwritten by CLI parameters.

There are some specific arguments that may be set automatically:

• aliases - Sets aliases for licenses (table, check --aliases for the full list)
• filename - Name of the output file (LICENSE by default)
• licensename -License type you want to use (only for config file)
• owner - Owner of the project (name of the current user by default)
• project - Name of the project (name of the current directory by default)
• workdir - Full path to the project
• year - Current year

Config

If a user creates ~/.config/licensegen/ directory (for Unix) or %LOCALAPPDATA%\licensegen\ folder, config.lua from can be used to set default default values. For example:

return {
    owner = "My Name",
    aliases = {
        bsd = "bsd-4-clause",
    },
}

This config file sets My Name as default $owner$ variable and bsd is now an aliase to bsd-4-clause.

Custom licenses

While creating a custom license is generally a bad idea, this project doesn't list all existing licenses that you might need to use. In this case you can create folder licenses in config directory and copy text of license template with .txt extension. Keep in mind that "custom" licenses have higher priority over the "standard" ones.

License source

All licenses were taken from choosealicense.com repo.