# GitHub License Observer

> Annotate GitHub projects with information about their license.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/github-license-observer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/github-license-observer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `github-license-observer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** galdor
- **Category:** web-development,appearance
- **Daily users:** 8
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.1.1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-03
- **First published:** 2023-09-03
- **Size:** 21 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/github-license-observer/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/galdor/github-license-observer](https://github.com/galdor/github-license-observer)

## Description

While GitHub has historically been a place to host Open Source software, more and more projects have started to use non Open Source licenses such as the Business Source License and the Server Side Public License. Since these licenses are not identified by GitHub, it is way too easy to start using a project before realizing that it does not contain Open Source code, thus causing potential legal issues.

This add-on tries to identify the license of each project and display a clear label indicating whether the license is Open Source or not.

## Rankings

- #36,095 — Overall
- #3 — license
- #94 — server
- #103 — github
- #197 — service

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `*://raw.githubusercontent.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.github.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: githubusercontent.com, github.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/github-license-observer)