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GitHub (and others) support

Open marnovo opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

Are these license files recognized automatically by GitHub (and other websites or tools)?

E.g. from this repo: screen shot 2018-01-26 at 3 59 27 pm

marnovo avatar Jan 26 '18 18:01 marnovo

I also wonder..

vrom911 avatar May 31 '18 01:05 vrom911

@IQAndreas

marnovo avatar Jun 06 '18 18:06 marnovo

It used to work I believe. The change is recent.

HaoZeke avatar Jul 21 '18 11:07 HaoZeke

Yes, the licenses from this repo have always been properly detected by GitHub in my experience. Here is an example of a markdown license being detected in one of my projects.

I think markdown licenses are more preferable as ever now that GitHub has a tabbed layout on a repository's landing page, allowing visitors to click between the README, contributing guidelines, etc. The markdown-formatted license looks much nicer than plaintext in this context IMO

jacobwhall avatar Jan 03 '24 19:01 jacobwhall