consider markdown licenses

[derhuerst]

As Markdown gives text-level semantics while being very subtle, it would be useful for licenses.

[nishanths]

@derhuerst Thanks for the link! An optional --markdown flag to output licenses in Markdown is a good idea.

[scottjbarr]

Nice idea, but in the few examples I've looked at it the output still works well if you treat the output as markdown. For example, output to LICENSE.md. It renders fine as is.

[HaoZeke]

Actually this is not a very good idea... Github doesn't seem to recognize markdown formatted licenses for the project header... As seen for example in this issue here: IQAndreas/markdown-licenses#25

[nishanths]

Thanks for the comments. Based on the fact that GitHub does not recognize Markdown formatted licenses, it doesn't seem like a good idea for Markdown-formatted licenses to be the default output format.

I'll close this since the issue has not been active for a while.