New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-source works

Re:New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-so... by mirabilos on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:05PM (#13767728)

As far as I can tell: no, unless GitHub takes taking excerpts from works too far and redistributing them without the licence attached. But nobody else is allowed to deal in those excerpts then, except via the original licence, so, likely not.

But 4-clause BSD and similar advertising clauses are _probably_ affected, and Apache 2 _when_ a NOTICE text file exists is _very likely_ affected. (Maybe even without; the Apache 2 licence requires giving recipients a copy of the licence text, too.)

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Re:New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-so... by TechHawk on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:58PM (#13768254)

Thanks for your reply!

Regarding "Maybe even without; the Apache 2 licence requires giving recipients a copy of the licence text", doesn't the BSD 3-clause license require this as well?

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Re:New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-so... by mirabilos on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:20PM (#13771142)

BSD/MIT/etc. only require the licence text to be present, usually by retaining it in the source code or accompanying documentation. Yes, it’s close. No, I don’t want to go there and discuss this detail.

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