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Generate open source and Creative Commons licenses from your command line

Project description

Emdy

Emdy generates Markdown-formattted open source and Creative Commons licenses from your command line.

Installation

pipx (recommended)

The recommended, cross-platform way of installing Emdy is via pipx.

pipx install emdy

Homebrew (macOS and Linux)

A Homebrew formula for Emdy is available from the Houkago Tea Tap.

brew tap celsiusnarhwal/htt
brew install emdy

pip (not recommended)

Emdy can be installed via pip like any other Python package, but unless you're going to create a virtual environment for it yourself, you're strongly recommeded to use pipx or Homebrew.

pip install emdy

Usage

Simply invoke Emdy from the command line:

emdy

That's it. Emdy will interactively guide you through the rest.

See it in action below.

Acknowledgements

Emdy sources its Markdown-formatted licenses from IQAndreas/markdown-licenses and idleberg/Creative-Commons-Markdown.

Disclaimer

Licenses produced by Emdy have been modified from their original forms. I'm not responsible for any legal issues arising from inconsistencies between Emdy's licenses and those they were derived from.

License

Emdy is licensed under the MIT License.

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