What can I assume if a publicly published project has no license? There is some code on GitHub that I would like to use The repository has no public declaration of license that I can find But this particular project has over 200 forks and is a pretty active his
GitHub Stars is a very useful metric. But for *what*? GitHub Stars may be "juiced" by media attention, which is temporary and not actually based on sustained popularity This is from personal experience -- after publicizing a fork of an my open source repo on Hacker News, I received some stars, but no corresponding increase in use of my fork