Repository license summary

Recently, I worked with Ben Balter to add a license summary to repositories with an open source license.

Before the addition, repositories with an open source license didn't have any information about what the license implies for people who use the code. It was up to you to figure it out for yourself.

In an effort to make open source licenses more helpful, Ben repurposed some of our code from choosealicense.com to bring a basic summary of each supported license and bullet point takeaways directly into the license file blog view.

Ben wired up the feature, and I did the design work as kind of a side project to my regularly scheduled focus work.

Lots of the things you see on GitHub.com every day often happen this way – the result of collaboration between a few folks on different teams who partner together apart from their focus work to make additional incremental improvements across the product.

Let me know what you think. Have you seen the license summary in production? Was it useful for you?