license

license [command] [options]

license generates open source license files from the command line. It supports all license types listed on the GitHub Licenses API and more, including MIT, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0, BSD-2-Clause, ISC, MPL-2.0, and Unlicense.
The tool outputs license text to stdout by default. Use -o to save directly to a file. Author name is resolved from command-line flags, the LICENSE_FULL_NAME environment variable, or git/hg config.

LICENSE

License type to generate (e.g., mit, apache-2.0, gpl-3.0, bsd-2-clause, isc, mpl-2.0, unlicense).

List all available license types.

Author name for the license. Falls back to LICENSEFULLNAME env var, then git config.

Year for copyright notice. Defaults to the current year.

Save the license to the specified file instead of stdout.

Display help information.

Multiple implementations of license generators exist (nishanths/license, azu/license-generator, etc.) with different flag conventions. This page documents nishanths/license, written in Go. Check which tool is installed with license -help.

license (nishanths/license) was created by Nishanth Shanmugham and is written in Go.

licensor(1), git(1)