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GitHub terms of service [1]: "If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
GitHub terms of service [1]:
"If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce Your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality (for example, through forking)."
I think these override it?
[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service#5-license-grant-to-other-users https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...
- oaiey 5y agoNo it does not. This statement is exclusively for the fact that GitHub and a reader is not liable for showing/reading your copyrighted code. The only weak spot is GitHub Actions/Code spaces/etc for dev tools I guess. Because that falls under "GitHub service" and is a functionality of it.
- bscphil 5y agoNo, this would also seem to protect users who click the "fork" button on Github. It would not, however, allow them to clone the software to their local computer or use it for any other purpose.
- SeanLuke 5y agoThe Github terms do not indicate that the license is transferable. Github can display the code, but even if someone downloads from Github, they still can't use it.