@jeffcliff Generally I primarily check the licensing and if I see that each nontrivial file has an -or-later license header, all is good and the software clearly is written by a freedom enjoyer.

If I see an absence of license headers and a lack of statements as to what files are under what licenses, the library becomes suspect and may be nonfree and contain malware.


MIT expat is the most popular license on github, but really not anywhere else.

People only really mindlessly select that license without reading it when github invites them to use it incorrectly.