GitHub does not detect license in forks?

[Kwpolska]

This repo has a LICENSE file, and GitHub detects it as MIT. This fork of mine has no license according to GitHub, even though the LICENSE file is the same in both. Perhaps the site should ignore forks altogether?

[k-nut]

Very interesting, I did not notice this while testing. It seems to me like github never shows or exposes the license in the api for forks.

So I think it would be interesting to find out why that is but maybe for the time being we should indeed filter out all the forks.

Feel free to send a pull request that implements this. It should be possible by adding a .filter here.

If you don't have time for this I can just do it myself also.

[Kwpolska]

Not a fan of JS, so I won’t try to fix this — could you please do it yourself?

[k-nut]

I had another look at this and found that github sometimes does find the license in forks such as in this repo: https://github.com/k-nut/werkzeug

I sent a support request to GitHub and will wait for their feedback on this.

If they do not get back to me within a week I will take out the forks for now.

[k-nut]

I got feedback from GitHub already: They confirm that this currently is a problem and say that they are working on solving it. Unfortunately they could not give an ETA for this.

I added a disclaimer to the app but will leave this story open until the actual issue is fixed.