Closed Hutchy68 closed 7 years ago
Rename COPYING to LICENSE?
I think this is a rather significant shortcoming of @GitHub and a bug not to support COPYING. Actually it is defying reality. While MediaWiki supports both file names COPYING is probably used by 99%+ of all extensions including MediaWiki core. (see also in general on this) In the end however it is just a matter of personal taste since both should be understood.
I wonder if it's a feature request. Actually I wonder if it matters having both. Seems a little redundant though.
Hmm, editing the COPYING file directly did pick up it is a LICENSE type file. The icon at the top still isn't showing but I wonder if it is a timing thing with GitHub.com. I'll wait and see.
Testing, I figured out what GitHub.com wants to see. Any variation and detection fails.
Testing, I figured out what GitHub.com wants to see. Any variation and detection fails.
Good on one hand since standards are enforced. Bad since you have to find other way to credit over time. So the variation should perhaps be done in README.
Closing and opening a new issue specific to how to license with attribution in BSD-2 see #37
Couple of housekeeping tasks
.github
directory. GitHub will detect template files in the.github
hidden directory. Put CONTRIBUTING.md, PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md, and (thanks to @kghbln) the ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md.