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ah thanks, you're right - I didn't think to look in subfolders. genuinely never seen a license in a subfolder before.
by jasonjmcghee 11mo ago
ah thanks, you're right - I didn't think to look in subfolders. genuinely never seen a license in a subfolder before.
- seba_dos1 11mo agoIt doesn't even have to be there, you could state what the license is on a website or in an e-mail. Sometimes you can find it in the header of source files (as seen here as well). Having a "LICENSE" or "COPYING" file in the root of the repository is just a common pattern made even more common by all the tools that can consume it automatically (including GitHub's UI).