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In The Stack FAQ, they claim that they are doing minimal analysis of the LICENSE file and SPDX tags. I'd bet that this is enough to detect cases like GPL code,
by AshamedCaptain 3y ago
In The Stack FAQ, they claim that they are doing minimal analysis of the LICENSE file and SPDX tags.
I'd bet that this is enough to detect cases like GPL code, but I also bet that if this analysis fails instead of falling back to "unknown license, assume proprietary, don't copy" they fall back to "free lunch!". Because reasons.
- angst_ridden 3y agoI suspect you're right. Even though even permissive licenses like MIT and BSD require attribution and preservation of copyright notices. Maybe their AI just can't "reliably detect" licenses.
- ryan-c 3y agoAt least one of my repos with no license/spdx was excluded, though the source files do say "all rights reserved" in them.