Command Line Usage

pychoosealicense also provides a command-line utility for showing information about a license.

Attention

This script has the following additional requirements:

click>=8.0.1
consolekit>=1.2.3

These can be installed as follows:

python -m pip install PyChooseALicense[cli]

license-info

Show information about the given license.

license-info [OPTIONS] LICENSE

Options

--colour, --no-colour

Whether to use coloured output.

-v, --verbose

Show a description of each rule (permission, limitation etc.)

Arguments

LICENSE

Required argument.