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by Operyl 2454 days ago
> Direct GitHub to promote correct and clear use of licenses and the best use of copyleft (GPL version 3-or-later).

Ehhhh... I very much like that my source code repository host isn't consistently nudging me to a specific license, thanks :).
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ryukafalz 2454 days ago
Sure, but it should at least differentiate between GPLv3 and GPLv3 or later. The SPDX license list does this: "GPL-3.0-only" vs "GPL-3.0-or-later". GitHub does not.

(Also, GitHub already does recommend licenses to some extent; there's a short list of highlighted ones in the license selection dropdown.)

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