From: Daniil Iaitskov Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:27:49 GMT Subject: Re: [ANN] git-phoenix - repository recovery tool Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 7/25/25 11:01, Christian Couder wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM Daniil Iaitskov wrote: >> >> On 7/25/25 10:12, Christian Couder wrote: > >>> Thanks for creating it. It doesn't seem to have a license, which might >>> prevent some of us from using it, though. >> >> 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. Thanks for feedback. After getting familiar with content of a few BSD3 license files I was able to commit mine. > >> The tool is also published on hackage under BSD3: >> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-phoenix-0.0.2 >> >> I don't see much difference between open source licenses and picked BSD3 >> just because it is popular here. >> >> 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.