Also not a lawyer, but pretty sure that no license is the same as "All rights reserved" (meaning, the most restrictive possible). Claiming "All rights reserved" doesn't give you more rights, but does establish that you communicated it and that anyone violating it had a better chance of knowing that.

(I think -- not a lawyer)

His statement to fork, fix, and ask for pulls perhaps gives some rights, but not usage or deployment ones.

In other word, if the author intends something else, they should say so.

EDIT: just noticed ThirdParty folder -- that changes the default to whatever is compatible with the licenses asserted in these libraries. I didn't check them.

I did some checking:

- Facebook Toolkit is Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) 1.1

- FluidKit says it's the "New BSD License" but gives the old 4-clause license.

- Google/GData is Apache 2.0

- Json.NET is MIT license

- Lucene.NET Apache 2.0

- MEF is the original Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)

- LumiSoft.Net seems to be a custom license. I'm not sure what it is

- I'm not familar enough with Mono to know what license this code is under, likely LGPL or MIT

- PyBinding: MIT

- SharpZipLib is GPL with a linking exception

- Sqlite is Public Domain

- tweetsharp: MIT

- log4net: Apache 2.0

With HttpServer, Shell32, Unrar and mshtml unknown.

[Edit: formatting]

Hmm- I think that is a grey area. Note what is said here about default license/rights on GitHub as of 10-7-2011:

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http://help.github.com/terms-of-service/

"you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories"

Ok, but not use or deploy the results. Basically -- the author should add a license.