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I think this is more likely to actually work. People don't read licenses and there is no CI that automatically enforces them. They might notice this badge thoug

I think this is more likely to actually work. People don't read licenses and there is no CI that automatically enforces them. They might notice this badge though.

serial_dev 3y ago
On the other hand, it requires only one determined person out of hundreds of thousands who, for whatever reason (trolling, principled open source maximalist, AI researcher, code archiver, etc), decides to mirror all code marked with this badge to GitHub.
cyberpunk 3y ago
Everywhere I've worked in the last few years has license checking as part of CI pipelines. Our builds fail if GPL'd code is detected in some .jar or whatever. (fossology and x-ray both provide this)