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Get-GitHubLicense

SYNOPSIS

Gets a license list or license content from GitHub.

SYNTAX

All (Default)

Get-GitHubLicense [-AccessToken <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

Elements

Get-GitHubLicense [-OwnerName <String>] [-RepositoryName <String>] [-AccessToken <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

Uri

Get-GitHubLicense -Uri <String> [-AccessToken <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

Individual

Get-GitHubLicense -Key <String> [-AccessToken <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

DESCRIPTION

Gets a license list or license content from GitHub.

The Git repo for this module can be found here: http://aka.ms/PowerShellForGitHub

EXAMPLES

EXAMPLE 1

Get-GitHubLicense

Returns metadata about popular open source licenses

EXAMPLE 2

Get-GitHubLicense -Key mit

Gets the content of the mit license file

EXAMPLE 3

Get-GitHubLicense -OwnerName microsoft -RepositoryName PowerShellForGitHub

Gets the content of the license file for the microsoft\PowerShellForGitHub repository. It may be necessary to convert the content of the file. Check the 'encoding' property of the result to know how 'content' is encoded. As an example, to convert from Base64, do the following:

[System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($result.content))

PARAMETERS

-AccessToken

If provided, this will be used as the AccessToken for authentication with the REST Api. Otherwise, will attempt to use the configured value or will run unauthenticated.

Type: System.String
Parameter Sets: (All)
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Key

The key of the license to retrieve the content for. If not specified, all licenses will be returned.

Type: System.String
Parameter Sets: Individual
Aliases: LicenseKey

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: True (ByPropertyName)
Accept wildcard characters: False

-OwnerName

Owner of the repository. If not supplied here, the DefaultOwnerName configuration property value will be used.

Type: System.String
Parameter Sets: Elements
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-RepositoryName

Name of the repository. If not supplied here, the DefaultRepositoryName configuration property value will be used.

Type: System.String
Parameter Sets: Elements
Aliases:

Required: False
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: False

-Uri

Uri for the repository. The OwnerName and RepositoryName will be extracted from here instead of needing to provide them individually.

Type: System.String
Parameter Sets: Uri
Aliases: RepositoryUrl

Required: True
Position: Named
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: True (ByPropertyName)
Accept wildcard characters: False

CommonParameters

This cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.

INPUTS

[String]

GitHub.Branch

GitHub.Content

GitHub.Event

GitHub.Issue

GitHub.IssueComment

GitHub.Label

GitHub.Milestone

GitHub.PullRequest

GitHub.Project

GitHub.ProjectCard

GitHub.ProjectColumn

GitHub.Reaction

GitHub.Release

GitHub.ReleaseAsset

GitHub.Repository

OUTPUTS

GitHub.License

NOTES

RELATED LINKS

PowerShellForGitHub

Docs

PowerShellForGitHub

Functions

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