Shields: "unknown license" for github license badge

[Jire]

Why doesn't Shields recognize my project's badge?

https://github.com/Jire/KTON

[![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/Jire/KTON.svg)](https://github.com/Jire/KTON/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)

[un1versal]

recognizes glpv2 on ours, very odd.

tried renaming your license file? LICENSE-APACHE-2.0 or something?

[nevillelyh]

Doesn't work on my new project either. I wonder if it's because the "unknown license" image was cached before I added a LICENSE file?

[giggio]

Same problem here:

[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/Lambda3/dotnet-commands.svg)](https://github.com/Lambda3/dotnet-commands/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)

[un1versal]

It wont solve anything, but havent you guys ever heard of relative linking?

[![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/Lambda3/dotnet-commands.svg)](./LICENSE.txt)

in any event you guys can workaround this issue easily until this issue is resolved

[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/Licence-Apache%202.0-blue.svg)](./LICENSE.txt)

[KevinPlus3]

We are running into this issue as well:

[![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/plus3it/watchmaker.svg)](./LICENSE)

Interestingly, enough, it seems to work fine with:

[![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/plus3it/systemprep.svg)](./LICENSE)

But both projects have the same LICENSE file. I haven't been able to pinpoint the exact problem with the plus3it/watchmaker project.
I downloaded and installed benbalter/licensee (which I believe is what github/license uses) and got back the following:

C:\Users\Vekyllis\GitHubRepos>licensee watchmaker
License file: LICENSE
Attribution: Copyright 2015 Maintainers of plus3it/watchmaker
License: Apache License 2.0
Confidence: 99.89%
Method: Licensee::Matchers::Dice

So licensee seems to be outputting correctly which leads me to believe that the call to https://img.shields.io/github/license/ is producing the incorrect response somehow.

[KevinPlus3]

Also, while I added the above information in support of the issue. I think Shields itself is not the problem since it just creates the badge in response to an API call. I think the underlying issue may be with GitHub's call itself so I sent a support ticket to GitHub to see if they could look into it.

[un1versal]

so I sent a support ticket to GitHub to see if they could look into it.

bah, good luck, you have a better chance of winning the lottery, 9/1 they will palm it off to some side project they use. Not before they say they will pass it along to dev team for feedback...or some same such nonsense.

[alphp]

PHP License is see as "Other":

[![license](https://img.shields.io/github/license/alphp/win32service.svg)](https://github.com/alphp/win32service/blob/master/LICENSE)

[platan]

Shields.io currently uses Github REST API (license fragment from /repos/:owner/:repo resource) to get license name.
@Jire GitHub API returns null as a license for https://github.com/Jire/KTON

curl "https://api.github.com/repos/Jire/KTON" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.drax-preview+json" -s | jq '.license' 
null

I renamed license file to LICENSE in my fork and it returns rigth license name:

curl "https://api.github.com/repos/platan/KTON" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.drax-preview+json" -s | jq '.license' 
{
  "key": "apache-2.0",
  "name": "Apache License 2.0",
  "spdx_id": "Apache-2.0",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0",
  "featured": true
}

License badge (see https://github.com/platan/KTON) works as well.

[platan]

@giggio It seems that it works properly for your repo now.

[platan]

@KevinPlus3 I see that license badge works properly for your repos.

[platan]

@alphp GitHub recognizes your license as:
curl "https://api.github.com/repos/alphp/win32service" -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.drax-preview+json" -s | jq '.license.name'
"Other"
I can see you added custom badge.

[paulmelnikow]

Seems like this can be closed, then?

[platan]

I think so.

[alphp]

Issue clarified, GitHub does not have the PHP license between the list of "recognized" licenses and tag the project's license as "Other".

[platan]

@paulmelnikow We can close this issue now.