I wish people would include licenses even on first release, and Github could help with this. It's probably one area where Google Code has an advantage, by makin

I wish people would include licenses even on first release, and Github could help with this. It's probably one area where Google Code has an advantage, by making the license explicit metadata. I've generally had good results from mailing the creator when there's no license mentioned - they usually didn't bother and will add a license, and often quite flexible about which license.