Open source has infiltrated the greater majority of software industries, with it being the most important aspect of many. The GPL and Apache licenses have been the most widely-used open source licenses, but with the rise of GitHub many projects are releasing their source code without any type of license attached to it. This causes some significant issues because, in the US, any code without a license is automatically copyrighted by the creator; this is a situation that can potentially have bad results for anyone who reuses unlicensed code. Github looks to improve this situation through the website choosealicense.com.
