chaffelson / addlicense

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

addlicense

The program ensures source code files have copyright license headers by scanning directory patterns recursively.

It modifies all source files in place and avoids adding a license header to any file that already has one.

install

go get -u github.com/google/addlicense

usage

addlicense [flags] pattern [pattern ...]

-c copyright holder (defaults to "Google LLC")
-f custom license file (no default)
-l license type: apache, bsd, mit, mpl (defaults to "apache")
-y year (defaults to current year)
-check check only mode: verify presence of license headers and exit with non-zero code if missing

The pattern argument can be provided multiple times, and may also refer to single files.

Running in a Docker Container

• Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/google/addlicense.git
• Build your docker container

docker build -t google/addlicense .

• Test the image

docker run -it google/addlicense -h

• Usage example

docker run -v ${PWD}:/go/src/app/ -it google/addlicense -c "Google LLC" *.go

license

Apache 2.0

This is not an official Google product.