license Command Examples

Create license files for open-source projects. More information: https://nishanths.github.io/license.

• Print a license to stdout, using the defaults (auto-detected author name, and current year):

license {{license_name}}

• Generate a license and save it to a file:

license -o {{path/to/file}} {{license_name}}

• List all available licenses:

license ls

• Generate a license with custom author name and year:

license --name {{author}} --year {{release_year}} {{license_name}}