Add LICENSE to the template

[h-chmeruk]

Changes proposed in this pull request:

• New parameters added to the copier.yml file:
  • license: 6 options for the most common licenses and the option “other” if a user wants to use a different/no license.
  • copyright_holder: person/organization that owns the package. Used in the LICENSE file.
  • year: year of publication of the package, also used in the LICENSE file
• LICENSE file added to the template folder.
• Tests added to verify the correct creation of the LICENSE file in the new package.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds LICENSE file generation functionality to the copier template, allowing users to select from common open-source licenses when creating a new project. The implementation includes template parameters for license type, copyright holder, and publication year, along with corresponding test coverage.

• Added three new template parameters: license (with 6 predefined options plus "Other"), copyright_holder, and year
• Created LICENSE template files for MIT, BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0, GPL-3.0-only, EUPL-1.2, and MPL-2.0
• Implemented tests to verify LICENSE file generation and content validation

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 9 out of 9 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

File	Description
copier.yml	Adds three new parameters (license, copyright_holder, year) with appropriate defaults and help text for license selection
tests/conftest.py	Updates test defaults to include license type ("MIT") and copyright holder ("pyfar contributors")
tests/test_copier.py	Adds LICENSE to file existence test, plus new tests for default license content and parametrized tests for all license types

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[ahms5]

Thanky hanna, looks fine, I would just combine these two options to be more flexible.

otherwise approved

[ahms5]

maybe we can combine year and holder to copyright_statement. This will be more flexible, because in some packages we have custum statements, e.g. sparpy
for copyright_statement we could make a default like {{current_year}}, {{author}}

[ahms5]

or a better default could be {{current_year}}, The pyfar developers, because this is most common

[h-chmeruk]

Thank you for the review! I'm not sure I know how to combine the parameters... Do you mean something like:

copyright_statement:
    type: str
    help: ""
    default:
        author: The pyfar developers
        year: {{current_year}}

?

[ahms5]

sth like this

Suggested change

	copyright_holder:
	type: str
	help: "Who is the copyright holder, for example, yourself or your organization? Used in copyright statements."
	default: "{{ git_username }}"
	year:
	type: str
	help: "What is the starting year of the project? Used in copyright statements."
	default: "{{ '%Y' | strftime }}"
	copyright_statement:
	type: str
	help: "What is the copyright statement. Usually it is sth like publication year, name of copyright holder."
	default: "{{ '%Y' | strftime }}, The pyfar developers"

[ahms5]

Suggested change

	default: "{{ '%Y' | strftime }}, The pyfar developers"
	default: "{{ '%Y' | strftime }}, {{ authors }}"

we can add an other fiedl for authors, since this will be need somewhere else.

[ahms5]

Suggested change

	help: "Your name or the name of your organization"
	help: "The author or authors of the package, can also be an organization."

[ahms5]

Just a small comment, after that you can merge. Thanks