Update outdated license files for your projects from command line.
npm install -g license-up
In your command line:
license-up --token [INSERT_YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN]
You can easily obtain a personal access token in your settings. Read this for more info.
Every year, your projects' licenses become obsolete.
On January 1, 2016, the following license file is out-of-date:
Copyright (c) 2015 Sung Won Cho
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
...It should be updated to:
Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Sung Won Cho
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
...Such a process becomes a hassle if you maintain multiple projects.
license-up solves that problem by automating the process using your command line.
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It goes through all your owned repos one by one, and looks for an outdated license file.
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It always asks you for a confirmation before updating the license file.
e.g.
######### Repo: your-project #########
The license is out-of-date
Let's update Copyright (c) 2012 to Copyright (c) 2012-2016
[?] update the license [y/N]
- If it detects a single year that is outdated, it concatenates a hyphen followed by the current year.
e.g.
Copyright (c) 2012 becomes Copyright (c) 2012-2016
- If it detects a range of years of which the last part is outdated, it updates the last part.
e.g.
Copyright (c) 2012-2015 becomes Copyright (c) 2012-2016
Copyright (c) 2012 - 2015 becomes Copyright (c) 2012 - 2016
Copyright (c) 2012 ~ 2015 becomes Copyright (c) 2012 ~ 2016
license-up was tested on MIT license. It might not work correctly with other types of licenses. Use with care.
MIT