Re: [ANN] git-phoenix - repository recovery tool

Daniil Iaitskov
2025-07-25T21:27:52Z

On 7/25/25 11:01, Christian Couder wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM Daniil Iaitskov <dyaitskov@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/25/25 10:12, Christian Couder wrote:
>
>>> Thanks for creating it. It doesn't seem to have a license, which might
>>> prevent some of us from using it, though.
>>
>> License is specified in project file (BSD3):
>> https://github.com/yaitskov/git-phoenix/blob/9a88c55fd45f28d4e1865df3ac746b409474eaf7/git-phoenix.cabal#L135
>
> Ok, I just saw that GitHub didn't display the license information at
> the top of your repository page, and then only took a look at the
> README where I couldn't find any license information.
>
> It seems that you need to add a file named LICENSE (or LICENSE.txt,
> LICENSE.md) with the full text of your chosen license in the root
> directory of your repository for GitHub to automatically detect and
> display it. I could help people find that information and be more
> confident that they can use it.

Thanks for feedback.
After getting familiar with content of a few BSD3 license files
I was able to commit mine.

>
>> The tool is also published on hackage under BSD3:
>> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/git-phoenix-0.0.2
>>
>> I don't see much difference between open source licenses and picked BSD3
>> just because it is popular here.
>>
>> What license would like to see?
>
> It's your choice and I don't have any say in it, but I am happy that
> it is open source :-)
>
> Thanks.