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Github does not need to sell the content to do anything I described. The content is software, and they can run it, modify it, and sell access to the site that r
by joeyh 10y ago
Github does not need to sell the content to do anything I described. The content is software, and they can run it, modify it, and sell access to the site that runs it.
And "Service" is defined as "anything github is doing", so distribution inside the Service could involve any number of entities.
- lovich 10y agoWould selling access not count as distributing
- shakna 10y agoService does have a definition, as it should in any legal document. Which isn't quite everything that they are doing: > The “Service” refers to the applications, software, products, and services provided by GitHub. If you focus the sentence on the "provided by" phrasing, then anything they take using their new TOS, would have to somehow be involved in directly forwarding something on to customers, as it needs to provide something. So they couldn't use it for anything internal only, such as say, a spreadsheet program, because the user doesn't directly benefit. They could however use a code auditing tool, as they could claim they are providing a better product to the public by auditing. It's a little bit grey, but there are limits. Not to say that I agree with the new TOS, as I have some serious doubts about using it, and it does make me consider removing some of my projects from GitHub, though they are working on the wording still. We'll see.