copyright-notice v1.0.14
Copyright
Add a copyright to your source files
Motivation
When source code files are prepared for distribution it is common for comments to be stripped and text to be minified. As a result, any legal notices regarding ownership and licensing is removed. This tool can be used to add that information back into the distributable file.
Prerequisites and installation
The Copyright utility uses Node.js. Package installation is done via NPM. These are the only two prerequisites.
To install the utility and make it available to your Bash shell, use this command.
[user@host]# npm install -g copyright-noticeUsage
The software is invoked from the command line with:
[user@host]# copyright [copyright file] [destination file] The destination file is prepended with the contents of the copyright file. The
contents should be in comment form, using whatever syntax is appropriate to the
source code language of the destination. So /* ... */ for CSS, or // ... for
JavaScript, or <!-- ... --> for HTML, etc. Linefeeds in the copyright file are
retained as is.
For the most efficient use of resources, this utility should be invoked by a
build tool that is sensitive to file modification timestamps, so that it is
triggered for each file in a nested hierarchy only when a source file is
changed. (The Read Write Tools prorenata builder has this capability.)
License
The copyright command line utility is licensed under the MIT License.