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[Question] Does this let github identify the license used?

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#9 opened on Jan 11, 2018

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Description

When you use this tool, will it also update the license property on the project's Github Repo?

i.e. I have a LICENSE.md with MIT in my repo, so Github displays that my repo uses MIT

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Investigate if oss.ninja produces a license file that GitHub's license detector recognizes. Check the tool's output format and compare with GitHub's detection rules.
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javascript
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tooling
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