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Github doesn't know what license this is

Open Eeems opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

License Github doesn't seem to understand that this repo is under the MIT license. Perhaps the license file was modified enough that it's not working properly?

Eeems avatar Feb 25 '21 20:02 Eeems

Can confirm it's MIT license. Not sure why GitHub doesn't understand. Does it cause any problems?

bsdz avatar Feb 25 '21 20:02 bsdz

It means that if anything is trying to use a github shield like in my original comment, it will show as not identifiable. That and anything meant to use the Github metadata through one of their APIs will not recognize what license this is under.

Eeems avatar Feb 25 '21 20:02 Eeems

Is there an easy fix?

bsdz avatar Feb 25 '21 20:02 bsdz

I have no idea. Perhaps replacing the file with a fresh copy of the MIT license template? https://github.com/licenses/license-templates/blob/master/templates/mit.txt

Eeems avatar Feb 25 '21 20:02 Eeems

Could be that. Just had a quick skim and found this https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/licensing-a-repository#detecting-a-license so could because there are two license files.

bsdz avatar Feb 25 '21 20:02 bsdz

Oh, quite likely. In that case you might want to remove one of them.

Eeems avatar Feb 25 '21 20:02 Eeems