Add correct Apache License 2.0 to the project#207
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Added full text of the Apache License 2.0 to the LICENSE file.
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Added full text of the Apache License 2.0 to the LICENSE file.
A sweep of the public
targetGitHub org found 12 non-archived repos that GitHub reports as license "Other" (NOASSERTION) and 3 with no license at all (NONE). The "Other" cases are not genuinely non-standard licenses — they are all Apache-2.0, but theirLICENSEfile contains only the 13-line Apache boilerplate notice (the snippet meant for source-file headers) instead of the full license body.GitHub uses the
licenseegem, which matches a license file against the canonical SPDX text at ~98% confidence. A 13-line notice has nothing to match → it falls back to "Other." This is the same issue identified on Strelka, and it is systemic: the repos almost certainly came from a shared scaffolding template that ships the notice stub asLICENSE.The fix is uniform and low-risk: replace the stub with the full, verbatim Apache-2.0 text (keeping the copyright line and any
NOTICEfiles). This is exactly the layout GoAlert uses — and GitHub detects GoAlert correctly.