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Merge pull request #744 from github/repos-eg-github

Make repository use requirement for adding a license slightly more generic
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#environment
language: ruby
rvm:
- 2.5.3
- 2.5.8
addons:
apt:

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@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ Choosealicense.com is intended to demystify license choices, not present or cata
* [List of OSI approved licenses](https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical)
* [GNU's list of free licenses](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html) (*note: the license must be listed in one of the three "free" categories*)
* [Open Definition's list of conformant licenses](https://opendefinition.org/licenses/) (non-code)
3. A [GitHub code search](https://github.com/search?q=MIT+filename%3ALICENSE&type=Code) must reveal at least *1,000* public repositories using the license.
4. 3 notable projects using the license must be identified. These must have straightforward LICENSE files which serve as examples newcomers can follow and that could be detected by [licensee](https://github.com/benbalter/licensee) if it knew about the license.
3. The license must be used in at least *1,000* public repositories. This may be documented, for example, with a [GitHub code search](https://github.com/search?q=MIT+filename%3ALICENSE&type=Code).
4. 3 notable projects using the license must be identified. These must have straightforward LICENSE files which serve as examples newcomers can follow and that could be detected by [licensee](https://github.com/licensee/licensee) if it knew about the license.
If your proposed license meets the above criteria, here's a few other things to keep in mind as you propose the license's addition:

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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/github/choosealicense.com.svg?branch=gh-pages)](https://travis-ci.org/github/choosealicense.com)
We catalog [select](CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-license) open source licenses with a [Jekyll collection](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/collections/) (in `_licenses`). The catalog is used to render [ChooseALicense.com](https://choosealicense.com) and is regularly vendored into [Licensee](https://github.com/benbalter/licensee), which GitHub uses to provide a [license chooser and license detection](https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-license-to-a-repository/), a [licenses API](https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/), and to [display license descriptions and metadata](https://github.com/blog/2335-open-source-license-descriptions-and-metadata).
We catalog [select](CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-a-license) open source licenses with a [Jekyll collection](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/collections/) (in `_licenses`). The catalog is used to render [ChooseALicense.com](https://choosealicense.com) and is regularly vendored into [Licensee](https://github.com/licensee/licensee), which GitHub uses to provide a [license chooser and license detection](https://help.github.com/articles/adding-a-license-to-a-repository/), a [licenses API](https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/), and to [display license descriptions and metadata](https://github.com/blog/2335-open-source-license-descriptions-and-metadata).
## Goals
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* `spdx-id` - Short identifier specified by https://spdx.org/licenses/
* `description` - A human-readable description of the license
* `how` - Instructions on how to implement the license
* `using` - A list of 3 notable projects using the license with straightforward LICENSE files which serve as examples newcomers can follow and that can be detected by [licensee](https://github.com/benbalter/licensee) in the form of `project_name: license_file_url`
* `using` - A list of 3 notable projects using the license with straightforward LICENSE files which serve as examples newcomers can follow and that can be detected by [licensee](https://github.com/licensee/licensee) in the form of `project_name: license_file_url`
* `permissions` - Bulleted list of permission rules
* `conditions` - Bulleted list of condition rules
* `limitations` - Bulleted list of limitation rules

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required: true
- name: using
description: 'A list of 3 notable projects using the license with straightforward LICENSE files which serve as examples newcomers can follow and that can be detected by [licensee](https://github.com/benbalter/licensee) in the form of `project_name: license_file_url`'
description: 'A list of 3 notable projects using the license with straightforward LICENSE files which serve as examples newcomers can follow and that can be detected by [licensee](https://github.com/licensee/licensee) in the form of `project_name: license_file_url`'
required: true
# Optional fields

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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of
note: Creative Commons recommends taking the additional step of adding a boilerplate notice to the top of each file. The boilerplate can be <a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#May_I_apply_CC0_to_computer_software.3F_If_so.2C_is_there_a_recommended_implementation.3F">found on their website</a>.
using:
- Awesome: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/master/license
- Awesome: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome/blob/main/license
- Shields.io: https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/master/LICENSE
- psdash: https://github.com/Jahaja/psdash/blob/master/LICENSE

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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of
using:
- Eclipse hawkBit: https://github.com/eclipse/hawkbit/blob/master/LICENSE
- JUnit: https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/blob/master/LICENSE-junit.txt
- JUnit: https://github.com/junit-team/junit4/blob/main/LICENSE-junit.txt
- Quil: https://github.com/quil/quil/blob/master/LICENSE
permissions:

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using:
- Servo: https://github.com/servo/servo/blob/master/LICENSE
- Syncthing: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/blob/master/LICENSE
- Syncthing: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/blob/main/LICENSE
- TimelineJS3: https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3/blob/master/LICENSE
permissions:

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@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ description: The University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, or UIUC licens
how: Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. Replace [year] with the current year and [fullname] with the name (or names) of the copyright holders. Replace [project] with the project organization, if any, that sponsors this work.
using:
- LLDB: https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT
- ROCR-Runtime: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCR-Runtime/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
- RLTK: https://github.com/chriswailes/RLTK/blob/master/LICENSE
- ToaruOS: https://github.com/klange/toaruos/blob/master/LICENSE
permissions:
- commercial-use

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end
it "is a #{slug} license" do
skip 'NCSA and PostgreSQL licenses hard to detect' if %(ncsa postgresql).include?(slug)
skip 'hard to detect licenses' if %(ncsa postgresql vim).include?(slug) && detected.key == 'other'
expect(detected.key).to eq(slug)
end
end