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I'd like to see them do some analysis and attempt to include licenses in READMEs. That seems to be VERY common amount projects on GitHub.


I wrote once a license crawler for VersionEye which recognises the most common licenses in README files on GitHub. But I didn't crawl whole GitHub! Only projects which are submitted in package managers and did not provide a license info on the package manager. I'm using it for example to complete license infos about RubyGem projects without a license on RubyGems.


Also in my license file I always list licenses of dependencies. I glanced at the source of Licensee and it doesn't seem to weight the license that appears first which would help in this case.




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