GitHub improves code licensing

Christian Kalkhoff softmetz at fsfe.org
Tue Jul 16 11:16:04 UTC 2013


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-licences-1918463.html
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