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publiccodenet / jekyll-theme

A Foundation for Public Code jekyll theme for use with GitHub pages.
https://publiccodenet.github.io/jekyll-theme/
European Union Public License 1.2
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Github doesn't auto-recognize this repo's licence #53

Open ElenaFdR opened 3 years ago

ElenaFdR commented 3 years ago

(or a couple of others we use!) This is clear when you skim the repos on our org page - only some are shown are having a licence.

Research

In 2016, Github said they use Licensee for this. Licensee says that they rely on the choosealicense.com database. Choosealicense.com does include the EUPL in their database.

Solution

Unless we have custom versions of the licenses that Github doesn't recognize, then I suggest we update our license files to the versions of the text used by choosealicense.com.

This will help people coming to our org page and our repos for the first time more quickly and easily understand the licences we use.

bvhme commented 3 years ago

The Jekyll theme also had configuration for displaying any copyright message, although I expect that to be vestigial by now.