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NAME

   license - program to specify and modify media file licenses

SYNOPSIS

   license [filename]

DESCRIPTION

   The liblicense package provides a license command to allow simple
   command-line examination and manipulation of license information
   embedded in media files. The default action is to show the default
   license as configured in $HOME/.license. This default can be offered by
   applications that use liblicense when asking you what license you would
   like to release your work under.

   In addition to showing you and allowing you to change the embedded
   license in a file, the license also can show and allow you to change
   the embedded "web statement URI", a link to a web page with information
   about the file that you can use to verify the embedded license.

OPTIONS

   These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
   options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
   included below. For a complete description, run the application with
   --help.

   -h --help
       Show summary of options.

   -v --verbose
       Output more information about the actions of the program.

   -q --quiet
       Output less information about the actions of the program.

   -a JURISDICTION --list=JURISDICTION
       List all avialbale licenses in JURISDICTION (uses the generic
       jurisdiction if JURISDICTION is not specified).

   --set-license
       Sets the license of the file (to the license specified by "-l").

   --remove-license
       Removes the embedded license metadata from the file.

   -l URI --license=URI
       When setting the license of a file or the default license
       preference, set it to URI.

   --set-web-statement
       Sets the web statement link in the file (to the value specified by
       "-w").

   --remove-web-statement
       Removes the embedded web statement metadata from the file.

   -w URI --web-statement=URI
       When setting the web statement URI in a file, set it to URI.

   -u MODULE --use=MODULE
       Use the module called MODULE to interact with a file.

   -m
       List the available modules and their capabilities. Modules are used
       to handle different media types.

AUTHOR

   This manual page was written by Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>.
   Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
   under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1
   or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

   On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public
   License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL.

COPYRIGHT

   Copyright  2008 Asheesh Laroia

[FIXME: source]                  June 4, 2008                    LIBLICENSE(1)



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