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Please note if you are wondering where your project is, we only archived to bigquery open source projects. So add an open source license for reals?

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Out of curiosity, how do you automatically(/programatically) "detect" that a project (repo) is open source? The presence of a LICENSE file that contains the text of the BSD|GPL|MIT|... license?

GitHub licenses API

https://developer.github.com/v3/licenses/

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