{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/github/choosealicense.com/issues/401","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/github/choosealicense.com","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/github/choosealicense.com/issues/401/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/github/choosealicense.com/issues/401/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/github/choosealicense.com/issues/401/events","html_url":"https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/401","id":151695213,"number":401,"title":"New feature: Suggest license directly from site to third-party repository?","user":{"login":"kfogel","id":401111,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/401111?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel","html_url":"https://github.com/kfogel","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/kfogel/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-04-28T17:09:18Z","updated_at":"2016-04-28T17:09:18Z","closed_at":null,"body":"It would be wonderful if one could go to http://choosealicense.com/, pick a license, and click a button to create a new pull request that suggests that license to a currently unlicensed third-party repository.\r\n\r\nFor example, today I ran across this repository on GitHub: https://github.com/ys/forked (the code behind the very useful [Stargazers forks](http://forked.yannick.io/) web service).  The repository doesn't have any license file at all.  It's quite likely that @ys meant it to be open source software, and simply never bothered to put an explicit license on the tree.  But the easiest way to ask @ys would just be to make a PR that adds a license he would be likely to find acceptable.  So I was going to create a PR that adds the text of the MIT license in a LICENSE.md file at the top level of the `ys/forked` tree... And then I thought, gosh, it would be so much easier if I could just go to http://choosealicense.com/, pick the obvious license (in this case MIT), and click a button to do create the PR for me!  A form field would open up, asking me for name of the repository where the PR should be created.  If I'm a member of one or more GitHub organizations, then there would be an intermediate chooser UI widget to ask me where the PR should come from (the same widget that comes up when you're logged in to GitHub and you click \"fork\" on a repository, and GitHub asks you where you want the new fork to be).\r\n\r\nOnce I've answered these easy one or two questions, the rest is fully automatic.  No manual copy-and-paste of license text, no clicking around the manual PR creation interface, no need for me to write the commit message -- all of this can be automated by choosealicense.com.\r\n\r\nI think if we had this feature, it could result in a lot more repositories getting clear open source licenses.\r\n\r\nThoughts?\r\n\r\n-Karl"}}