Fetch GitHub's MIT license template, populating this year and your name

README.md

Generate MIT License

Fetch GitHub's MIT license template, populating this year and your name.

Setup

Create virtualenv:

$ pipenv install

Quickstart

Create license:

$ pipenv run python generate_mit_license.py

Print license:

$ cat LICENSE

GenerateMITLicense.py

"""
Fetch GitHub's MIT license template, populating this year and your name.
"""

import getpass
import pwd
from datetime import date

import requests

template = requests.get('https://api.github.com/licenses/mit').json()['body']
year = date.today().strftime('%Y')
name = pwd.getpwnam(getpass.getuser()).pw_gecos
license_ = template.replace('[year]', year).replace('[fullname]', name)

open('LICENSE', 'w').write(license_)

Pipfile

[[source]]
url = "https://pypi.python.org/simple"
verify_ssl = true
name = "pypi"

[packages]
requests = "*"

[dev-packages]

[requires]
python_version = "3.7"