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A Cargo subcommand that creates a file with a user-defined license in the project's directory.

Installation

Download from crates.io:
cargo add add-license
or download Source Code

Install the crate with:
cargo install add-license
or locally with cargo install --path .

Usage

cargo add-license
Creates the LICENSE file based on your Cargo.toml file. If you have 'authors' and 'year' attributes there, it will replace the <authors>, <year> fields inside the LICENSE file.

• The license attribute in Cargo.toml must be ONE of [AGPL-3.0-only, Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, LGPL-2.1, MIT]

cargo add-license MIT
Replaces the 'license' attribute inside Cargo.toml and creates a LICENSE file. If you have 'authors' and 'year' attributes there, it will replace the <authors>, <year> fields inside the LICENSE file.

• The license argument must be ONE of [AGPL3, APACHE2, BSD2, BSD3, GPL2, GPL3, LGPL2.1, MIT]

cargo add-license -y:2024
ONLY replaces the 'year' attribute inside Cargo.toml.

cargo add-license -a:Pablo_Marques,Carl_Menger
ONLY replaces the 'authors' attribute inside Cargo.toml.

• Replace all spaces between names with '_', and place no space after the ',' symbol.

All valid commands:
cargo add-license

cargo add-license MIT
cargo add-license -y:2024
cargo add-license -a:Mary_Johnson,Carl_Menger

cargo add-license MIT -y:2024
cargo add-license MIT -a:Marques
cargo add-license -y:2024 -a:Marques
cargo add-license -a:Marques -y:2024

cargo add-license MIT -y:2024 -a:Marques
cargo add-license MIT -a:Marques -y:2024

DO NOT FORGET
If you do not specify 'authors' and a 'year' in Cargo.toml OR in the command argument, your LICENSE will be created with the default <year> and <authors> fields.