Add License Headers to Your Code Files

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  • nwa

    A More Powerful License Header Management Tool

  • This article introduces a more powerful license statement management tool called NWA. It helps you effortlessly add license headers to your code files and also check, update, and remove existing license statements, ensuring the legality and compliance of your code.

  • addlicense

    A program which ensures source code files have copyright license headers by scanning directory patterns recursively

  • 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:

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • nwa-examples

    Examples of NWA functionality

  • To help you get started with NWA's functionality, developers have provided nwa-examples to help you learn how to use NWA in a practical way. You can clone this project and follow the tutorial or simply refer to this guide and use nwa-examples for more usage examples.

  • cobra

    A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

  • NWA is a command-line tool built on cobra. Here's an overview of NWA's commands:

  • doublestar

    Implements support for double star (**) matches in golang's path.Match and filepath.Glob.

  • -s's default value is an empty array, so you can use zero or more -s flags to specify file paths to skip. This path supports doublestar syntax, making it very flexible. For example:

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