> I wish more people understood that this is a bad thing. Why is it a bad thing? If you represent a business you are free to either refrain from using the proj

> I wish more people understood that this is a bad thing. Why is it a bad thing? If you represent a business you are free to either refrain from using the project, or send a message to the author(s) and request they add a license. Perhaps the author has no intent to allow others to use their code, and they are merely using github as a convenient place to host their code. Like you said, nobody is allowed to use their code without a license, so why bother to use a private repository? It might be a bad thing if the author actually put their code online with the intent of having random businesses use it, but it's a bit presumptuous to call it a bad thing in general.