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The description is useful to see, but it's not shown. They can be long though, so aren't guaranteed to fit. To solve this, it could be shown up until a certain size limit, and then if it gets longer than that it could get truncated with a ... and have a hover tool-tip thing that shows the entire description so you can still read the whole thing, even if it's long.

Here's a quick example I made without the truncating thing, mostly just to show it can work and could be useful:

Note: This is correct to my knowledge, but I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

Currently this project has no license, meaning it's under exclusive copyright by default and so all of it isn't legally allowed to be copied or modified by other people. That's not intended though ofc and has already happened, which probably won't actually cause an issue because this project is only like a few hundred lines in total and not between that many people or even known about that much... But it would be nice to add a license so we're not just hoping everyone else will be fair and reasonable.

A couple licenses that could be chosen:

• MIT - Basically lets people do whatever as long as they keep the license.
• AGPL - Do whatever as long as if you modify it and share it (including over a network) you must also distribute the source code under the same license. This means that someone can't take your/our work, modify it, then share it without allowing us to use their changes effectively making us compete with a proprietary fork. This isn't too likely to happen with this project specifically though, so may be a bit excessive.

In order to change licenses though (including from no license to a license), you need permission from all copyright holders. If you wrote it all yourself you can just give yourself permission and change it whenever you want, but if others have contributed then you need permission from them too (or maybe only for significant contributions, I'm not sure). So... To add a license, one would need to be chosen, and then everyone who's contributed would need to grant permission to license their work under said license.

I'll start:

I (Purrrpley) am okay with licensing all of my contributions to this project under the MIT license and/or the AGPL license.

If you have also contributed to this project and don't want to be technically infringing other people's copyright by doing so, you can make a comment similar to the above here for whatever license we end up choosing to use and once everyone has done so this project can have a license.

Another note: I'm not trying to scare anyone with legal stuff here, I'm just trying to help future us by trying to fix a problem now before it gets harder to fix later.