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Allowing people to view my content is much different from giving a company the rights to redistribute it. Github's terms may be less formal, but they say very

• mrkurt 13y ago
  Serving your content up to readers is redistributing it. You are implicitly granting Github that right by agreeing to let them serve your content to other users. Note that Github isn't in the user generated content business, primarily, so they are less at risk by leaving the terms loose and human. I would generally prefer Medium's terms, but written / translated into non-legalese. Some company did this a few years ago, I wish I could find it.
• thrownaway2424 13y ago
  "Allowing people to view my content" is redistribution. There's a copy at Medium and there's a copy on the reader's computer.