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Subject: Update to the GitHub Terms of Service
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:44:27 +0000
From: GitHub Legal Team <support(a)github.com>
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To: jacob(a)mcs.anl.gov
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Joe Mazzellafrom GitHub's LegalTeam here. I'm writing to let you know
that we're in the process of updating GitHub's Terms of Service that
govern your use of GitHub, as mentioned in our blog post
<http://github.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9d7ced8c4bbd6c2f238673f0f&…>.
We have not made any changes to the Amendment to GitHub Terms of Service
Applicable to U.S. Federal Government Users, except that in the future,
we will not be sending out email notifications about material changes to
the Terms. We're looking to push the revised Terms of Service live on
/February 28, 2017./
In general, this update lets us do a better job of putting our current
business practices in clearer terms for our users. Therefore, we're
updating our Terms to make them less ambiguous and easier to read so
that you know what you’re agreeing to. Some of the changes you’ll find
in the new Terms of Service:
* *Reading the Terms:* You’ll find a table of contents, as well as a
summary of every section in plain English.
* *Acceptable Use:* We have clarified our Acceptable Use Policy,
including our policy on scraping and misuse of GitHub Users’
personal information.
* *Ownership of Content:* We don’t claim any ownership rights to the
content you upload to GitHub. What’s yours is yours. In the new
Terms, however, we have added an explicit license to clarify our
right to store and serve it without violating your rights.
* *Contributions Under Repository License:* To address growing
confusion over licensing and contributions to others’ projects, we
added a section to clarify that the standard licensing rules of open
source contribution apply, commonly referred to as
"inbound=outbound". If it does not suit your needs, you may add your
own Contributor License Agreement to your repository.
* *GitHub Pages terms:* We have clarified our rules regarding GitHub
Pages.
* *Advertising on GitHub:* Advertising is not prohibited on GitHub,
but it is heavily scrutinized because we don’t want to become a spam
haven. Our Terms now describe the kind of advertising that GitHub
allows.
The Existing Terms of Service
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The Proposed Terms of Service
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To be clear, no action is required on your part to accept the new Terms
of Service. And just to reiterate what I mentioned above, there are no
changes to the Government amendment, other than the way we will notify
you of material changes.
If you have any questions, suggestions, feedback, or if there is any way
we can help improve your experience in the open source community, please
feel free to contact us at government(a)github.com
<mailto:[email protected]>. We'd <3 to hear from you!
Cheers and open source,
Joe Mazzellaand GitHub's LegalTeam
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