Hi,
It’s been a long time I have not published anything here but now I come back and share something that will be useful for a lot of my projects and maybe yours…
My problem
A little bit bored from having to add a license to each of my projects, READMEs, etc…
My solution
I decided to create a github page for the MIT license (the one I use for a lot of my projects) filled with my information.
But when you do that and know that you only have to change your name and optionaly provide a link, you tell yourself, “What else???”.
As a good developper, you want your creation to be usefull for other people!
This is what I did :
https://benavern.github.io/MIT/
HowTo
To personalize it, you just have to add some search-like information in the url’s hash
name: yours or your companieslink: (optional) a URL or mailto link to give the visitor a chance to contact you
Demo
Take me, my name is Benjamin Caradeuc and my personal website (where you can find how to contact me) is located at http://caradeuc.info/
The URL will be :
https://benavern.github.io/MIT#name=Benjamin%20Caradeuc&link=http%3A//caradeuc.info/
Don’t forget to escape the data that you put in the url for a better compatibility!
Anonymous
If you don’t want to personalize the page, you can pass a space in the name parameter. The space escaped code is %20, so the url will be :
https://benavern.github.io/MIT#name=%20
This will result in an anonymous license text.
If you like (or if you don’t) that project, let me know in the comments below!
See you next hack ;-)