Re: [ANN] git-phoenix - repository recovery tool

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2025, 19:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD19rjmOYR2KZ6qBM2zWMaNJknSdwbOijMRVn-RQoejezA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fe5d1d5e-15fe-4d00-96c4-d5a4a3b568c5@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM Daniil Iaitskov <dyaitskov@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 7/25/25 10:12, Christian Couder wrote:

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> > Thanks for creating it. It doesn't seem to have a license, which might
> > prevent some of us from using it, though.
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> License is specified in project file (BSD3):
> https://github.com/yaitskov/git-phoenix/blob/9a88c55fd45f28d4e1865df3ac746b409474eaf7/git-phoenix.cabal#L135

Ok, I just saw that GitHub didn't display the license information at the top of your repository page, and then only took a look at the README where I couldn't find any license information.

It seems that you need to add a file named LICENSE (or LICENSE.txt, LICENSE.md) with the full text of your chosen license in the root directory of your repository for GitHub to automatically detect and display it. I could help people find that information and be more confident that they can use it.

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> The tool is also published on hackage under BSD3:
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-phoenix-0.0.2
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> I don't see much difference between open source licenses and picked BSD3
> just because it is popular here.
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> What license would like to see?

It's your choice and I don't have any say in it, but I am happy that it is open source :-)

Thanks.