kainjow/Mustache

Please provide a license file

allada opened this issue · 2 comments

allada commented

I see there's a license at the footer which is Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003 with the top line modified.

Can you please provide a license file and put the copyright in the README?

Thanks!

kainjow commented

The license, as you noticed, is already in the read me and in the source code. What is the benefit of adding it yet again?

allada commented

Sorry for the delay, it's primarily because most bundling software (like here at Google) uses LICENSE file as the primary way to check licenses. It's the defacto-standard for determining the license. It may be in the readme, but the 'checker' to look to see if licenses have changed are not smart enough to look through a readme to figure out the license. This means that when a developer is upgrading a package, it's up to them to check the license, download it and copy it in when necessary.

https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-license-to-a-repository/ has more info.

Thanks!