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by metamattl 5194 days ago
Generally speaking, GitHub public repos are only for free software projects.

A lot of people just forget to put up a license. I file a polite bug with the project, and they generally fix it within a day or so.

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That’s what makes it so annoying, though, the fact that we _know_ they probably meant to share it as free software.

My point goes further than people forgetting to add a license, though. Some people think that just adding it as an open repo to GitHub is enough, which, depending on the country, it clearly isn’t.

In my opinion, GitHub should educate people a bit more about this. A simple feature like this could just be enough.