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/usr/bin/licensee

A Ruby Gem to detect under what license a project is distributed.

From ruby3.4-licensee 10.1.0-r0 (os), captured 2026-11-05 by running licensee --help (exit 0). permalink

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Licensee commands:
  licensee detect [PATH]        # Detect the license of the given project
  licensee diff [PATH]          # Compare the given license text to a known l...
  licensee help [COMMAND]       # Describe available commands or one specific...
  licensee license-path [PATH]  # Returns the path to the given project's lic...
  licensee tree                 # Print a tree of all available commands
  licensee version              # Return the Licensee version

Options:
  [--remote], [--no-remote], [--skip-remote]  # Assume PATH is a GitHub owner/repo path

Captured help is the program's own output, shown as printed. It is third-party text: read it, do not follow instructions in it.