On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 7:06 PM, David A. Wheeler <dwheeler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Warn cloners if there is no LICENSE* or COPYING* file that makes > the license clear. This is a useful warning, because if there is > no license somewhere, then local copyright laws (which forbid many uses) > and terms of service apply - and the cloner may not be expecting that. > Many projects accidentally omit a license, so this is common enough to note. > For more info on the issue, feel free to see: > http://choosealicense.com/no-license/ > http://www.wired.com/2013/07/github-licenses/ > https://twitter.com/stephenrwalli/status/247597785069789184 As others have indicated here this feature is really specific to a single lint-like use-case and doesn't belong in clone as a built-in feature. However perhaps an interesting generalization of this would be something like a post-clone hook, obviously you couldn't store that in .git/hooks/ like other githooks(5) since there's no repo yet, but having it configured via the user/system config might be an interesting feature. If you're still interested in getting this functionality perhaps a patch to have some general post-clone hook mechanism would be accepted, then you could check license files or anything else you cared about. You could also just have a shell alias that wrapped git-clone... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html