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dankohn1 on Sept 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: License now displayed on repository overview

Github uses an open source gem [0] to detect the license. You're welcome to contribute enhancements.

[0] https://github.com/benbalter/licensee

sciurus on Sept 22, 2016 | [–]

Looks like although the README says it only looks at LICENSE, it has improved and checks more files; nice!

https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/3692df44ab32772a9...

justinlardinois on Sept 22, 2016 | [–]

I'm aware, I read the post.

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