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Good point. Here's my 2 cents - > D.4 specifically grants GitHub the right to display your content, analyze your content, and reproduce it in full to other use
by hnfong 5y ago
Good point. Here's my 2 cents -
> D.4 specifically grants GitHub the right to display your content, analyze your content, and reproduce it in full to other users of the service
If you read the section carefully, this covers the right of GitHub to do those things to your content "as necessary to provide the Service". "It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service".
So, does "Service" only cover the type of Github's service at the time of the agreement, or does it allow Github to invent all kinds of unrelated services and use the code as such? If Github can provide a "Copilot" service that arguably "learns" the code, can it also provide a service that blatantly "copies" large pieces of source code for the user (without complying to OSS license terms)?
It's not very clear what the answer would be, but if what I described is allowed, the consequences of this term being so broad would imply that if you're not the copyright owner of code you uploaded to Github, you've probably violated some OSS license by agreeing to Github's terms.
- floatingatoll 5y agoWhich OSS licenses are potentially incompatible with GitHub? Are they also incompatible with GitLab? How can one or the other be judged to have exceeded the bounds of what is permissible as a user-generated content provider, and/or fair use rights, in the legal jurisdiction of each?