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ergebnis/license
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Provides an abstraction of an open-source license.

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license
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[](#license)

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This project provides a [`composer`](https://getcomposer.org) package with an abstraction of an open-source license.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Run

```
composer require --dev ergebnis/license
```

Usage
-----

[](#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`

[](#configuration-for-friendsofphpphp-cs-fixer)

With [`friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer`](https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/PHP-CS-Fixer) you can use the configuration file `.php-cs-fixer.php` 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-fixer.php` file for an open-source project using the [`MIT`](src/Type/MIT.php) license type:

```