licensing(1)

licensing1

A program for adding license notices to files

Usage

licensing [OPTION ...] [COMMAND [OPTION ...]]

Overview

A command-line interface for free software licensing.

The most commonly used commands are:

apply

Prepend the current working boilerplate to a file.

boilerplate

Show or remove the boilerplate text at the top of a file.

choose

Pick license and comment style for the working boilerplate.

copyright

Add or modify copyright notices in the working boilerplate.

detect

Statistically determine the license notice of a file.

Options

-q, --quiet

don't show the welcome message

-?, --help

give this help list

--usage

give a short usage message

-V, --version

print program version

To see a list of all commands type `licensing help'.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 8
  2. 9
  3. 10
  4. 11
  5. 12
  6. 13

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to <http://sv.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=licenseutils>.

From licenseutils 0.0.9-8 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.