addlicense
A program which ensures source code files have copyright license headers by scanning directory patterns recursively (by google)
gitgen
Generate license and gitignore files from Go without an internet connection. It also has a convenience CLI, but can be used as a library as well (by eacp)
| addlicense | gitgen | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 671 | 4 | |
| 0.7% | - | |
| 2.9 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | about 3 years ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
addlicense
Posts with mentions or reviews of addlicense.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-28.
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Add License Headers to Your Code Files
This is where license header adding tools come in handy. One commonly used tool is the addlicense project under the 'google' organization. 'addlicense' allows you to add license statements to specified files via command-line interaction. However, 'addlicense' has limited functionality; it only adds license headers to files. Some issues raised for 'addlicense' include:
gitgen
Posts with mentions or reviews of gitgen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing addlicense and gitgen you can also consider the following projects:
nwa - A More Powerful License Header Management Tool
go-licenses - A lightweight tool to report on the licenses used by a Go package and its dependencies. Highlight! Versioned external URL to licenses can be found at the same time.
doublestar - Implements support for double star (**) matches in golang's path.Match and filepath.Glob.
jwt-key-server - JWT based remote licensing server.
cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
Gogs - Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service
nwa-examples - Examples of NWA functionality
lazygit - simple terminal UI for git commands
cli - GitHub’s official command line tool
f-license - Open Source License Key Generation and Verification Tool written in Go