karacolada
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1 year ago GitHub uses the Ruby Gem Licensee for identifying licenses.. Licensee uses string comparison to match licenses. E.g. if a license's content matches a license with 95%, it's classified as that license (disregarding spaces and newlines). "Other" seems to be the rest that cannot be matched.
During manual review of the 16 repositories, I found a lot of licenses that look like the 3-clause BSD license. This is a very short license, so I hypothesise that even tiny changes might have a big impact on the recognition of this license.
In summary, I found:
- 1 EPL 1.0 (HTML file)
- 7 BSD licenses
- 2 license files where multiple licenses are used for different parts of the code
- 1 LGPL 2.0
- 2 CCPL
- 2 apache licenses
- 1 eclipse license
16 of the repositories crawled from ePrints have license type "other". What does that mean?