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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon russellallen

Where is Self's license?

Open L2G opened this issue 9 years ago • 7 comments

There are many comments that refer to the "LICENSE" file for license information, but I cannot find such a file.

L2G avatar Dec 02 '14 19:12 L2G

Hi, have a look in the 'legal' directory. You will see the LICENCE file as well as the AUTHORS.

russellallen avatar Dec 02 '14 21:12 russellallen

How did I miss that? Thanks, @russellallen.

L2G avatar Dec 11 '14 00:12 L2G

LICENSE should be in the Toplevel so also Github can detect id

krono avatar Sep 09 '16 21:09 krono

Is there some doc showing what Github is looking for? Our licence is 'BSD-like' but not a standard BSD licence.

russellallen avatar Sep 10 '16 06:09 russellallen

No, I have not seen something, maybe in the next days.

krono avatar Sep 10 '16 06:09 krono

Maybe? https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing/#where-does-the-license-live-on-my-repository

Most people place their license text in a file named LICENSE.txt (or LICENSE.md) in the root of the repository

Related:

  • https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31639059/how-to-add-license-to-a-existing-github-project

Bystroushaak avatar Sep 10 '16 13:09 Bystroushaak

Interesting. I only revived this because GitHub started labeling some projects w/ their license, see for example https://github.com/pycket/pycket (top right:

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krono avatar Sep 10 '16 13:09 krono