Web UI doesn't recognize licenses that comply with REUSE

[kyper-james]

Hi all,

I've recently updated the copyright and licensing metadata in some of my projects to comply with the REUSE specification (which has been partially adopted by the Linux kernel, for example). However, GitHub's web UI doesn't recognize the licenses in the mandated LICENSES directory, and therefore doesn't link to them in the About panel on the right-hand side of the project page.

See https://github.com/kyper-io/alfa as an example:

This can be worked around by adding a COPYRIGHT or COPYING file (despite it not being required by REUSE), but it would be more convenient if GitHub could detect it automatically and streamline the licensing process even further.

What do you think?

[sdavids]

Duplicate of #44922