On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Dave Rapin <[email protected]> wrote: > I would love to see a breakdown of the various open-source licensing > used by github projects (MIT, GPL, LGPS, BSD, etc.). Basically just > like the languages breakdown found here, but for licensing instead: > https://github.com/languages > > Anyways aware of a method to get this info? If not, any plans to add > it?
This is considerably more difficult than /languages due to the fact that licenses can live inside files, not just on their own. Right now the only way for us to do this would be to figure it out when you push something to GitHub, and the only way for a third party to get this information would be to scrape all public repos on the site (which we discourage :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
