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Re:License now displayed on repository overview by justinlardinois on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:24PM (#12553640)
I was thinking the same thing. Just a few years ago GitHub used to automatically "figure out" what programming language your project was in, and it was pretty bad.
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Re:License now displayed on repository overview by dankohn1 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @10:05PM (#12553801)
Github uses an open source gem [0] to detect the license. You're welcome to contribute enhancements.

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

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Re:License now displayed on repository overview by sciurus on Thursday September 22, 2016 @10:19AM (#12556941)
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...

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Re:License now displayed on repository overview by justinlardinois on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @11:53PM (#12554204)
I'm aware, I read the post.
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