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Provides an abstraction of an open-source license.

Installation

Run

$ composer require --dev ergebnis/license

Usage

Sometimes open source maintainers complain about the burden of managing an open-source project. Sometimes they argue that contributors opening pull requests to update license years unnecessarily increase their workload.

Of course, all of this can be automated, can't it?

Configuration for friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer

With friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer you can use the configuration file .php_cs to

• save the license to a file, e.g. LICENSE or LICENSE.md
• specify a file-level header using the header_comment fixer that will be replaced in PHP files

Here's an example of a .php_cs file:

<?php

use Ergebnis\License;
use PhpCsFixer\Config;
use PhpCsFixer\Finder;

$license = License\Type\MIT::text(
    __DIR__ . '/LICENSE',
    License\Range::since(
        License\Year::fromString('2020'),
        new \DateTimeZone('UTC')
    ),
    License\Holder::fromString('Andreas Möller'),
    License\Url::fromString('https://github.com/ergebnis/license')
);

$license->save();

$finder = Finder::create()->in(__DIR__);

return Config::create()
    ->setFinder($finder)
    ->setRules([
        'header_comment' => [
            'comment_type' => 'PHPDoc',
            'header' => $license->header(),
            'location' => 'after_declare_strict',
            'separate' => 'both',
        ],
    ]);

💡 Also take a look at .php_cs of this project.

GitHub Actions

When using GitHub Actions, you can set up a scheduled workflow that opens a pull request to the license year automatically on January 1st:

name: "License"

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "1 0 1 1 *"

jobs:
  license:
    name: "License"

    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"

    steps:
      - name: "Checkout"
        uses: "actions/checkout@v2.0.0"

      - name: "Install dependencies with composer"
        run: "composer install --no-interaction --no-progress --no-suggest"

      - name: "Run friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer"
        run: "vendor/bin/php-cs-fixer fix --config=.php_cs --diff --diff-format=udiff --dry-run --verbose"

      - name: "Open pull request updating license year"
        uses: "gr2m/create-or-update-pull-request-action@v1.2.9"
        with:
          author: "Andreas Möller <am@localheinz.com>"
          branch: "feature/license-year"
          body: |
            This PR

            * [x] updates the license year
          commit-message: "Enhancement: Update license year"
          path: "."
          title: "Enhancement: Update license year"
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"

💡 See crontab.guru if you need help scheduling the workflow.

Note that pull requests opened or commits pushed by GitHub Actions will not trigger a build. As an alternative, you can set up a bot user:

       - name: "Open pull request updating license year"
         uses: "gr2m/create-or-update-pull-request-action@v1.2.9"
         with:
-          author: "Andreas Möller <am@localheinz.com>"
+          author: "ergebnis-bot <bot@ergebn.is>"
           branch: "feature/license-year"
           body: |
             This PR

             * [x] updates the license year
           commit-message: "Enhancement: Update license year"
           path: "."
           title: "Enhancement: Update license year"
         env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}"
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: "${{ secrets.ERGEBNIS_BOT_TOKEN }}"

Types

The following license types are currently available:

• Ergebnis\License\Type\MIT

💡 Need a different license type? Feel free to open a pull request!

Changelog

Please have a look at CHANGELOG.md.

Contributing

Please have a look at CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code of Conduct

Please have a look at CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

License

This package is licensed using the MIT License.

Please have a look at LICENSE.md.

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