Add LICENSE file.

[afs]

A top level LICENSE means github will pick it up.

[saleem-muhammad]

Sorry I did not get it. Can you please further explain ?

[afs]

Hi @saleem-muhammad

(This is related to a conversation with @Aklakan and @LorenzBuehmann .)

The convention in open source is to put a file named LICENSE in the top level directory with the license in it. It helps people find the license.

And it becoming for tools as well. github scans repos, determines the license from a set it knows about, and adds the information to the "about" panel and also puts it in the repositories listing for the organisation.

See for example: https://github.com/AKSW/gson-utils/LICENSE (@Aklakan).

The other convention is NOTICE, which is for the required legal statements that downstream. The Apache License does not have such a requirement. Apache Software Foundation put the copyright statement in their NOTICE file.

e.g.
https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/blob/master/NOTICE.txt

Happy to help - but not PR in this case. The LICENSE ought to be added by an owner!

[Aklakan]

@afs Thanks for pointing out the missing license - Its now the usual Apache V2.