add LICENSE file

[danmaas]

Hi - I noticed that the GitHub API, and other open-source indexes, are not recognizing the proper license on this repo because there is no LICENSE file. This PR adds the LICENSE.

[styfle]

There is a license, it's under /docs as you can see here: https://github.com/markedjs/marked/blob/master/docs/LICENSE.md

[danmaas]

Ah, sorry about that. GitHub's automated scanner only looks in the root directory of the repo, and I was following that convention, so I missed the one under docs/.

[styfle]

Where are you seeing this scanner? I would think this is a bug with GitHub since the docs say "most people".

Most people place their license text in a file named LICENSE.txt (or LICENSE.md) in the root of the repository

Maybe marked's license is not detected because of the multiple licenses in one file.

If your repository is using a license that is listed on the Choose a License website and it's not displaying clearly at the top of the repository page, it may contain multiple licenses or other complexity.

https://help.github.com/articles/licensing-a-repository/

[danmaas]

Doing a bit more research on this now.

The Github doc linked above implies that they are using this Ruby gem: https://github.com/benbalter/licensee which claims to "score files in the project's root as potential license files" (https://github.com/benbalter/licensee/blob/master/docs/what-we-look-at.md).

But you're probably right about having multiple licenses in one file; GitHub's matcher is pretty crude, and probably wouldn't pick up the licenses automatically even if they were in the root.

Sorry for bothering you about this, I was just trying to follow up on a few discrepancies I've been finding between GitHub projects and package registries, especially pertaining to license and ownership info. Feel free to close the PR.

[styfle]

I'm closing this ticket since we don't need two licenses so this PR is not necesary.

We'll either leave it as is (in the docs directory) or move it back to root if this ticket doesn't pan out.

Thanks for bringing this up 👍