Setting up a New GitHub Repository for Coding Projects

If you host a GitHub Enterprise Server instance, you must unlock the instance with a license file. You can view, manage, and update the license file. About ...

You can manually add a license using the browser. For more information on adding a license to a repository, see Adding a license to a repository. Disclaimer.

On the left side of the page, under Add a license to your project, review the available licenses, then select a license from the list. Click Review and submit ...

On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository. · Above the list of files, using the Add file drop-down, click Create new file. · In the file name field, ...

you can open the license file, then select edit this file from drop down menu of edit, on the upper right side you will see Choose a license ...

Open source licenses are generally irrevocable. Once you publish something under a license, you can relicense future versions but cannot retroactively change ...

I have a repository hosted on GitHub in which I want to replace my LICENSE file with another LICENSE file in the git history.

I have created a simple list API in C and I want to release it via Github. Is there any way to change the license after the creation of the repository?

As other people mentioned here, normally a project cannot retroactively change a license. When the code is licensed to others under a license ( ...

Everyone should use at least some kind of license, but if you ever find yourself needing to change it, it can be at least a little confusing ...