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A free and open database of all the licenses, in particular all the open source software licenses
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Content-type header for text versions #44

Open dato opened 1 year ago

dato commented 1 year ago

It would be great if text versions of the licenses were served as text/plain. Currently, the Content-Type header for this format is set to application/octet-streamin the response.

pombredanne commented 12 months ago

@dato ack, thanks! and yes++. Weirdly enough we are doing nothing special there. The file are served as-is by Github pages so this must be something weird there.

pombredanne commented 1 week ago

Based on https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github-pages/about-github-pages#mime-types-on-github-pages GH maps a type based on an extension and does NOT recognize .LICENSE as a text extension in https://github.com/jshttp/mime-db We could either: