GitHub Repo Licenses

Comments focus on inquiring about, identifying, or complaining about the absence of license information in GitHub repositories for open source projects, often requesting additions like MIT or Apache licenses.

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Sample Comments

bratsche Aug 23, 2015 View on HN

What's the license on this? There doesn't seem to be anything about that in their Github repo.

hugs Dec 23, 2016 View on HN

What's the license? (I don't see any explicitly mentioned in the source repo.)

simonmales Nov 12, 2014 View on HN

No mention of which license they are using?

pgaddict Dec 21, 2016 View on HN

Sadly, no info about license in the github repository ...

verdverm Nov 15, 2020 View on HN

What's up with the license / copyright for this repo?

toomanyducks Apr 20, 2021 View on HN

What's the license? I didn't see it on the repo.

jacooper Apr 15, 2023 View on HN

At least its mention code license. See github, its actually possible!

simcop2387 Jun 8, 2021 View on HN

It looks like it's Apache 2.0 licensed? Wh issues do you have with that licemse.

iqandjoke May 27, 2025 View on HN

License type is needed. Something like GPLv3/ WTFPL Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License?

Cthulhu_ Nov 2, 2017 View on HN

It's an open source project though, MIT license.