Hi,
in an other thread on this list I mentioned a study [1] on GitHub which stated, that tons of code there is not properly licensed and therfore unusable for anybody.
As H-Online writes today [2], GitHub now makes a license selectable on new project creation.
I am not sure what that means for the files, but it sure will improve the awareness for licensing for anybody using GitHub.
Best, Christian
[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/18/github_licensing_study/ [2] http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/GitHub-gets-smart-over-open-source-li...
On 16 July 2013 12:16, Christian Kalkhoff softmetz@fsfe.org wrote:
in an other thread on this list I mentioned a study [1] on GitHub which stated, that tons of code there is not properly licensed and therfore unusable for anybody. As H-Online writes today [2], GitHub now makes a license selectable on new project creation.
Simon Phipps from OSI has also noted it in his Infoworld column:
https://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/github-finally-takes-open-s...
So, nice one all round.
- d.