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LICENSING(1) User Commands LICENSING(1)

NAME

licensing - a program for adding license notices to files

SYNOPSIS

licensing [OPTION...] [COMMAND [OPTION...]]

DESCRIPTION

A command-line interface for free software licensing.

The most commonly used commands are:

Prepend the current working boilerplate to a file.
Show or remove the boilerplate text at the top of a file.
Pick license and comment style for the working boilerplate.
Add or modify copyright notices in the working boilerplate.
Statistically determine the license notice of a file.

OPTIONS

don't show the welcome message
-?, --help
give this help list
give a short usage message
print program version

To see a list of all commands type `licensing help'.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <http://sv.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=licenseutils>.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for licensing is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and licensing programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info licensing

should give you access to the complete manual.

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