GitHub improves code licensing

[David Gerard]

On 16 July 2013 12:16, Christian Kalkhoff <softmetz at 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-source-licenses-seriously-222708

So, nice one all round.


- d.