Lichen – Manage and create code licenses on the CLI and with TOML

What it does

Produce legal code ❌🚔‼️ Lichen provides tools for producing and managing licenses both on the CLI and through a config file. Double license and only license particular parts of a codebase with regex.. - philocalyst/lichen

Lichen(lic) is a CLI tool that salves the pain of managing licenses. Whether you're a small project, who just wants a MIT then, there, now; or a large project, who concern themselves with double-licensing and license headers; you'll find sanctuary with Lichen. Who yes, can do all those things by the way and in a config file too! As developers, sometimes you might need other people to pay for your morning coffees, so make sure they know who to thank by embedding your name and email into the license (Thanks lichen!). Built off the backs of the fine people THE SYSTEM PACKAGE DATA EXCHANGE(Spdx) -- we support over 600 licenses. I dare you to use them all ‼️ Ahaha, we certainly have thefrom github.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey! I'm Miles, I built this tool to be a fast and reliable solution for generating licenses on the CLI. Licensing has always been a point of stress for me, with how much is at stake. If I copy one from the wrong website, the version I download is the wrong one, or any number of mishaps, my whole code is at risk. We…

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