licenseheaders

A Python 3 tool to update, change or add license headers to all files of any of the supported types (see below) in or below some directory.

Usage

usage: licenseheaders [-h] [-V] [-v] [-d DIR] [-b] [-t TMPL] [-y YEARS]
                         [-o OWNER] [-n PROJECTNAME] [-u PROJECTURL]
                         [--enc ENCODING] [--safesubst] [-D]
                         [--additional-extensions ADDITIONAL_EXTENSIONS [ADDITIONAL_EXTENSIONS ...]]

Python license header updater

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -v, --verbose         increases log verbosity (can be specified 1 to 3
                        times, default shows errors only)
  -d DIR, --dir DIR     The directory to recursively process (default: .).
  -b                    Back up all files which get changed to a copy with
                        .bak added to the name
  -t TMPL, --tmpl TMPL  Template name or file to use.
  -y YEARS, --years YEARS
                        Year or year range to use.
  -o OWNER, --owner OWNER
                        Name of copyright owner to use.
  -n PROJECTNAME, --projname PROJECTNAME
                        Name of project to use.
  -u PROJECTURL, --projurl PROJECTURL
                        Url of project to use.
  --enc ENCODING        Encoding of program files (default: utf-8)
  --dry                 Only show what would get done, do not change any files
  --safesubst           Do not raise error if template variables cannot be
                        substituted.
  -D                    Enable debug messages (same as -v -v -v)
  -E [EXT [EXT ...]], --ext [EXT [EXT ...]]
                        If specified, restrict processing to the specified
                        extension(s) only
  --additional-extensions ADDITIONAL_EXTENSIONS [ADDITIONAL_EXTENSIONS ...]
                        Provide a comma-separated list of additional file
                        extensions as value for a specified language as key,
                        each with a leading dot and no whitespace (default:
                        None).
  -x [EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]], --exclude [EXCLUDE [EXCLUDE ...]]
                        File path patterns to exclude


Known extensions: ['.java', '.scala', '.groovy', '.jape', '.js', '.sh', '.csh', '.py', '.pl', '.pl', '.robot', '.xml', '.sql', '.c', '.cc', '.cpp', 'c++', '.h', '.hpp', '.rb', '.cs', '.vb', '.erl', '.src', '.config', '.schema']

If -t/--tmpl is specified, that header is added to (or existing header replaced for) all source files of known type
If -t/--tmpl is not specified byt -y/--years is specified, all years in existing header files
  are replaced with the years specified

Examples:
  # add a lgpl-v3 header and set the variables for year, owner, project and url to the given values
  # process all files in the current directory and below
  licenseheaders -t lgpl-v3 -y 2012-2014 -o ThisNiceCompany -n ProjectName -u http://the.projectname.com
  # only update the year in all existing headers
  # process all files in the current directory and below
  licenseheaders -y 2012-2015
  # only update the year in all existing headers, process the given directory
  licenseheaders -y 2012-2015 -d /dir/where/to/start/
  # apply copyright headers to files specified by their language family + file extensions
  licenseheaders -y 2012-2015 -d /dir/where/to/start/ --additional-extensions python=.j2
  licenseheaders -y 2012-2015 -d /dir/where/to/start/ --additional-extensions python=.j2,.tpl script=.txt

If licenseheaders is installed as a package (from pypi for instance), one can interact with it as a command line tool:

python -m licenseheaders -t lgpl3 -o "Eager Hacker"

or directly:

licenseheaders -t lgpl3 -o "Eager Hacker"

Installation

NOTE: this requires Python 3.5 or higher!

pip install licenseheaders

IMPORTANT: do NOT download from the github releases page, these stopped to get updated after release 0.5 when the package became available on PyPi. Since then installation with pip install is recommended.

Template names and files

This library comes with a number of predefined templates. If a template name is specified which when matched against all predefined template names matches exactly one as a substring, then that template is used. Otherwise the name is expected to be the path of file.

If a template does not contain any variables of the form ${varname} it is used as is. Otherwise the program will try to replace the variable from one of the following sources:

• an environment variable with the same name but the prefix LICENSE_HEADERS_ added
• the command line option that can be used to set the variable (see usage)

Supported file types and how they are processed

NOTE: You can provide additional file extensions with --additional-extensions cli argument. Note that file extensions which contain multiple dots, e.g. ".py.j2", are not yet supported, use ".j2" at the moment instead.

java:

• extensions .java, .scala, .groovy, .jape, .js
• also used for Javascript
• only headers that use Java block comments are recognised as existing headers
• the template text will be wrapped in block comments

script:

• extensions .sh, .csh

perl:

• extension .pl

python:

• extension .py

xml:

• extension .xml

sql:

• extension .sql

c:

• extensions .c, .cc, .cpp, .c++, .h, .hpp

ruby:

• extension .rb

csharp:

• extension .cs

visualbasic:

• extension .vb

erlang:

• extensions .erl, .src, .config, .schema

html:

• extensions .html

css:

• extensions .css, .scss, .sass

docker:

• extensions .dockerfile
• filenames Dockerfile

yaml:

• extensions .yaml, .yml

License

Licensed under the term of MIT License. See file LICENSE.txt.