tmp4lig

Template Output Tool for license and gitignore.

Description

The tool allows licenses to be retrieved from the binary's embedded template, and .gitignore files to retrieve data from gitignore.io and output to the current work directory.

Some licenses have a username and current year injected into the template that can be retrieved with git config --get user.name.

Note that this tool is intended to be used locally and does not print out to standard output.

Install

Binaries are available on the Release page.

or Go can be run, the install command is available.

go install github.com/kawana77b/tmp4lig@latest

Usage

# outputs a .gitignore or LICENSE file to the current current directory.
tmp4lig

# outputs a .gitignore file to the current current directory.
tmp4lig gitignore

# outputs a LICENSE file to the current current directory.
tmp4lig license

Available license templates

The generated files refer to the following:

Name	URL
GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.0	https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html.en
Apache License Version 2.0	https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
BSD 2-Clause License	https://opensource.org/license/bsd-2-clause
BSD 3-Clause License	https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause
Boost Software License	https://www.boost.org/users/license.html
CC0 1.0 Universal	https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.en
MIT	https://opensource.org/license/mit
Mozilla Public License Version 2.0	https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/2.0/
The Unlicense	https://unlicense.org/

Digression

The naming of this tool is intended to stand for 'Template Output Tool for license and gitignore'. Although tmp may easily remind you of temporary, we name it so because it seems easier to say and more coherent than describing it as tmpl or tpl.