Mass LICENSE production — stamp a license into every repo that lacks one.

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Built by Angela Hudson · DaCameraGirl

license-zapper 🐸⚡

Mass LICENSE production for GitHub.
One command. Every bare repo. Zapped. 💚

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A repo with no LICENSE is a little frog with no fireflies — legally it's "all rights reserved" by default, but it looks unfinished and leaves people unsure what they can do. license-zapper hops through every repo on your account, finds the bare ones, and zaps a license right in through the GitHub API. No cloning twenty repos by hand. 🪰⚡

Dry-run by default — nothing changes until you say --go.

bash zap-licenses.sh                     # 👀 dry run — see what it WOULD do
bash zap-licenses.sh --license mit       # 👀 dry run, MIT
bash zap-licenses.sh --go                # ⚡ stamp the proprietary license
bash zap-licenses.sh --license mit --go  # ⚡ stamp MIT

Flag	Default	What it does
--owner <name>	DaCameraGirl	GitHub account to scan
--license <type>	proprietary	proprietary or mit
--name <name>	Angela Hudson	Name written into the license
--year <year>	current year	Copyright year
--only <a,b>	(all)	Only zap these repos
--exclude <a,b>	retiring repos	Never zap these repos
--include-archived	off	Also include archived repos
--go	off (dry run)	Actually write the LICENSE

• 🐸 Dry run unless --go. Look before you leap.
• ⏭️ Skips any repo that already has a license.
• 🔒 Skips archived (read-only) repos unless you ask for them.
• 🎯 --only / --exclude for precise aim.

• GitHub CLI (gh), authenticated: gh auth login
• bash + base64 (Git Bash on Windows works fine)

Born the night of 2026-06-12 out of a joke — "lol I wish I could just zap all my repos with a license" — and shipped about an hour later. On his very first run he snapped up 20 bare repos in one pass. Full story in the changelog. 🐸⚡🪰

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Built by Angela Hudson · DaCameraGirl 💖
_{Copyright © 2026 Angela Hudson. All Rights Reserved. See LICENSE.}