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License data quality improvements

GitHub improved license data quality by prioritizing package registries (e.g., npmjs.org, PyPI) over ClearlyDefined, cutting missing licenses from 45% to 24% and using version ranges for better coverage.

From the source

Early results show that we’ve cut the number of missing licenses in half, from 45% of the 170 million packages in the dependency graph down to 24%.

github.blog

Announced

13 Aug 2026 19:14 UTC