Licenser

Verify and append licenses to your GitHub repositories.

Supported Licenses & Languages

Licenses:

• Apache 2.0

Languages:

• Bazel
• C/C++
• Dockerfile
• Golang
• Javascript
• Make
• Protobuf
• Python
• Shell
• TypeScript
• YAML

Licenser will also automatically ignore the following files:

• *.md, *.golden
• .gitignore
• Files that should be ignored according to .gitignore (experimental)
• .licenserignore
• Files that should be ignored according to .licenserignore (experimental)

Install

Install via go install:

go install github.com/liamawhite/licenser

To install from prebuilt binaries, download from the releases section.

Verifying Licenses in your Files

To verify that licenses are present in all files in a repository, run the verify command at the root, with the --recurse flag.

licenser verify -r

Apply Licenses to your Files

To prepend licenses to all files in a repository, run the apply command at the root, with the --recurse flag, passing in the copyright owner.

licenser apply -r "Copyright Owner"