License statement - incomplete and difficult to find

[Norse-Harold]

Hello,

I would really like to use some of the code in the dump repository for free software projects, particularly the code in "how-to-receive-a-packet".

Closed issue #1 has relevant information, as well as pull request 16. In PR 16 you state, "Code that are reused from somwhere are... well under some license. Code authored by me are either "public domain" or MIT. When in doubt use MIT as suggested in issue 1" I think that this is difficult for users to find. It also does not propagate to forks of the repository.

I can't tell whether code in a particular directory is written by you or not, as I don't see statements in the files crediting the author of the code.

As an example of why an obvious license statement is important, user unixlab has forked the code in "how-to-receive-a-packet", but unixlab's code has no license statement. unixlab probably didn't know what license to apply to it. I was about to use the code, checked the license and found myself unable to use it without knowing what license terms to announce and comply with for my fork of the code.

Thanks for your contributions to free software and the computing industry.