I just think that there are better ways of limiting that (however I'll freely admit that I don't really have any experience in the area, especially the legal as

I just think that there are better ways of limiting that (however I'll freely admit that I don't really have any experience in the area, especially the legal aspect, so I could be horribly off on this). I've seen many very cool, creative, and useful tools pop up on top of GitHub and sites like it, and I just fear that changes like this will have the (perhaps unintended) side effect of shutting them down. Things like CommitPrint [https://commitprint.com/ https://commitprint.com/], or Commits.io [https://commits.io/ https://commits.io/] come to mind.