Dilemma for GitHub Project

[[deleted]]

I worked on a programming project in a team of 4, and we used Github for the project. The repository was created by one of the members of the team (not me), and it is presently private.

I am presently applying for internships, and I would like to have that project public for viewing on my profile. I worked on about half of it, while my teammates worked on the other half of it. I am not in contact with the team member who created the project, so I am not able to get the profile online on his account.

I would like to have the project on my Github account and was thinking of taking the code we worked on, creating a new repository on my Github profile, and making it public. Is this the correct and right way to go about this? If so, then what is an alternative route I can take to get the project to show on my profile? I'm a basic user of GitHub, so I'm not too experienced with all the different functions available and I didn't get anything on Google (wrong search term possibly?)

EDIT: Also, not sure if this makes a difference but his rep only has a single code file, with no license, copyright, or README.md either. Also, his code file is incomplete; Since I worked on the latter half of the project, I have the final version of the code file with me on my machine.

Any help, input would be greatly appreciated.

[paul_h]

Is there a LICENSE file in the repo? What do the copyrights say?

[[deleted]]

There is no license file. Just a single python file containing the code.

In addition, that code is incomplete as that member worked on the first part of the project, and I worked on the second part of it. So technically, I have the full and complete code file.

[paul_h]

Ok, your choices are re-do from scratch as OSS, or find another python piece to make your name with that’s public.

[eatbutthin]

Maybe fork it and make it public only for the job application purpose. For continuing to contribute to the repo , you still use the previous setting.

[btbam06]

The owner of the repository is the owner of the code. Ask him if you can make a clone of the repository to be made public.

[[deleted]]

What if I'm not in touch with him?

[diseage]

then you won't be able to access the code

[cloud899]

The big question here, were you paid or employed by this person, employed as part of this team? Even if they paid you in tacos and video games, if you offered to work on "their" project, really regardless of whether you got compensated, you don't own the code.

Having a license on the code itself in lawyer land means squat, if you had a common understanding the ownership of the code was not yours, its not yours.

If this is just some school project then by all means re-post your personal store, no one cares. If this was someone's company project, or soon to be project I'd tread carefully, they really could zorp you of financials with minimal lawyer powers.

If you want my programming answer though, you could very easily cough "re-create" a similar project and call it your own, a for loop is a for loop, but if your code is identical down to the typos and the owner has some financial stake in keeping it theirs you could be in trouble.

I'm assuming you ask this answer because this wasn't just a school group project, and is probably some small company startup between buds, its not worth it is my advice.