[BUG] GitHub not accepting/identifying the LICENSE (as BSD-2-clause)

[hoijui]

(old, closed, but same issue: https://github.com/junkdog/artemis-odb/issues/464)

While GitHub detects LICENSE (BSD-2-clause) as the main LICENSE file, it apparently also sees LICENSE.libgdx (APLv2), and thus it decides to not know what the license is; compare these two:

• https://github.com/junkdog/artemis-odb/blob/develop/LICENSE
• https://github.com/kazimierz-256/EventCalculusWebApp/blob/master/LICENSE

NOTE: I checked on my fork: If I remove the LICENSE.libgdx file, GitHub detects BSD-2-clause; see: https://github.com/hoijui/artemis-odb/blob/develop/LICENSE

[hoijui]

GitHub recommends to have only one LICNESE file with one license in it, and talk about the other license related stuff (like licenses of dependencies or secondary licenses) in the README:

https://help.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/licensing-a-repository#detecting-a-license

[hoijui]

(side comment; quite unrelated)

maybe also put this in the README?

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD%202--Clause-orange.svg)](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)

[hoijui]

I found a related stack* question. the first two answers seem very good: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/304874/declaring-multiple-licences-in-a-github-project/371526

[junkdog]

thanks for the head's up and info! i'll fix it after work/sometime this week.

[DaanVanYperen]

Thanks @hoijui! :cookie: That was an absolute pain to fix but it works.