Generate your license. Yet another lice, but implemented with Jinja2 and docopt, should be much more elegant and cleaner. I also get many inspirations from joe(help you generate gitignore).

seems better than lice:

• Licen use Jinja2 as its template engine, sweet and easy. Lice do it by hand.
• Licen use docopt for the command line interface. Lice use argparse.
• Licen don't render the boilerplate in the license template. Lice do. Check out the issue here.
• Licen is pep8 checked. Lice don't.

seems not good as lice:

• Licen support less licenses. Check issue#1
• Licen haven't support comment the license header yet. Check issue#2

$ pip install licen

NOTE: because licen use the git configuration(user.name and user.email) as default context, please make sure that you've set up git properly. You can check this guide if you have done yet.

A gif is worth than a thousand words.

In short, generate a licnese:

$ licen mit > LICENSE

Generate a header:

$ licen header gpl-2.0-header > main.py

Or get detailed help message from the terminal.

$ licen -h
licen, generates license for you via command line

Usage:
  licen [header] (-l | --list)
  licen [-y YEAR] [-f FULLNAME] [-e EMAIL] LICENSE_NAME
  licen header [-y YEAR] [-f FULLNAME] [-e EMAIL] LICENSE_HEADER
  licen --var NAME
  licen (-h | --help)
  licen (-V | --version)

Options:
  -l --list     List all the support licenses or headers.
  -y YEAR       Specify the year.
  -f FULLNAME   Specify the owner's fullname.
  -e EMAIL      Specify the email.
  --var         List all the variables in the template.
  -h --help     Show the help message.
  -V --version  Show the version info.

MIT.