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That’s not a valid license. Without a file or statement in the repository, I guess it’s a proprietary piece of software that people cannot legally fork.



Actully, the act of putting it on GitHub might be considered an implied license to clone and fork the project since those are normal GitHub functions. Still, an explicit open source license that also makes sure to grant those rights outside of GitHub would be better.


It is public domain if there is no license.


That is not true.


I checked; you are right.


The opposite is true. Even if you publish the source, if you don't add a licence, you still have full copyright and all rights to it.




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