vscode-choosealicense

Choose a license for your project in VS Code via GitHub Licenses API

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Usage

Use License: Choose license command to create a license file in your project. You can also set year and author properties for auto replacing this fields in license.

Commands

Press Ctrl + Shift + P (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + P (Mac) to open the command palette and type License.

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Command	Description
Choose license	Choose a license to create.
Add default license	Add default license to repository.
Choose multiple licenses	Add multiple licenses.
Set default license	Set default license to use.
Set author	Set author for licenses.
Set year	Set year for licenses.
Set extension	Set extension for license files.
Set filename	Set filename for license files.
Set token	Set token for GitHub REST API access.

About access token

Setting an access token is optional, but it's increases your API rate limit.

If you want to, you can start with creating token (no scopes are required).

Why not all licenses are available?

List of licenses is retrieved using the Get all commonly used licenses API method. Not all licenses are included in this list. If you need a license that is not presented in this extension, raise an issue.