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Indicate when a repo has no license in header #1528

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humphd opened this issue Mar 21, 2019 · 2 comments
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Indicate when a repo has no license in header #1528

humphd opened this issue Mar 21, 2019 · 2 comments

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@humphd
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humphd commented Mar 21, 2019

When a repo has a license, GitHub does a nice job trying to indicate the license in the header at the top right. However, when a repo doesn't have a license, it simply omits this. I think not having any indication of the missing license makes it easier to miss this fact.

With an open license (shows explicitly, MIT):
Screen Shot 2019-03-21 at 3 58 27 PM

Without a license of any kind, nothing is shown (easy to miss):
Screen Shot 2019-03-21 at 3 57 08 PM

It might be good if it at least indicated the absence of the license somehow, and/or linked to something that gave people a sense of what this means.

@TPS
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TPS commented Mar 22, 2019

Maybe that No Specified License should link to @github's own https://choosealicense.com/.

@Mottie
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Mottie commented Mar 29, 2020

A userscript that adds "unknown license" (in yellow) to the header is now available here: https://github.com/Mottie/GitHub-userscripts/wiki/GitHub-unknown-license

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