From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:45:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clone: Warn if LICENSE or COPYING file lacking and !clone.skiplicensecheck
Message-ID: <CACsJy8DxUjfJ8DZ4g5bspeHARCVs9nwt9fC4wySUy0rtsCL++A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1YZTZI-0002QE-3r@rmm6prod02.runbox.com>

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:16 AM, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@dwheeler.com> wrote:
> Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes
> the license clear.  This is a useful warning, because if there is
> no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which forbid many uses)
> and terms of service apply - and the cloner may not be expecting that.
> Many projects accidentally omit a license, so this is common enough to note.
>
> You can disable this warning by setting "clone.skiplicensecheck" to "true".

Perhaps make this a hook and maybe install by default on new clones,
e.g. templates/hooks--post-checkout.sample?
-- 
Duy