GitHub (and others) support

[marnovo]

Are these license files recognized automatically by GitHub (and other websites or tools)?

E.g. from this repo:

[vrom911]

I also wonder..

[marnovo]

@IQAndreas

[HaoZeke]

It used to work I believe. The change is recent.

[jacobwhall]

Yes, the licenses from this repo have always been properly detected by GitHub in my experience. Here is an example of a markdown license being detected in one of my projects.

I think markdown licenses are more preferable as ever now that GitHub has a tabbed layout on a repository's landing page, allowing visitors to click between the README, contributing guidelines, etc. The markdown-formatted license looks much nicer than plaintext in this context IMO