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

Re:New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-so... by matt4077 on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:10PM (#13767797)

> And these rules apply to private repos, too.

To quote your quote:

>> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly

This is the same non-story that goes around any time someone reads the terms of service of twitter/facebook/dropbox/etc. These services need some license grant to do what you want them to do.

Note that any OSS license fulfills the requirements. I always assumed a free license was a requirement anyway. If that's the case, nothing really changed.

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Re:New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-so... by mirabilos on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:24PM (#13767936)

Any OSS licence fulfils the requirements EXCEPT for GitHub’s requirement to not add any requirements to the grant. See my updated post.

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Re:New GitHub Terms of Service require removing many open-so... by squeaky-clean on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @03:17PM (#13767870)

Your quote only covers section D.5, other users. You still need to grant Github themselves that right, even for private repos, in section D.4

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