Here's the thing about GitHub that most people do not realize. I find this funny because of all the talk of following license agreements, very few have taken the time to read the terms of service for GitHub.
from their terms of service: "Short version: You own content you create, but you allow us certain rights to it, so that we can display and share the content you post." emphasis mine.
they allow themselves the right to display content you upload to others. GitHub does not seem to really put a cap on that in terms of what intentions it needs to have or for what purposes it needs to share your content.
this seems to me that, by putting your code on github.com, that you are granting GitHub license to show it to others. period. IANAL, but it seems like all code anyone puts on github.com is dual-licensed, at least. GitHub gets their own rights to your code.
I read this before I signed up, and while I can't remember if this exact passage was present at the time, I was ok with everything GitHub wanted at the time, and I continue to be.
githubcopilotinvestigation.com doesn't seem to have much hope of doing anything except getting people mad. but you all were already mad anyway, weren't ya?
This seems to be the line of argumentation agreed upon by several waffling pro-GitHub posters. Many comments have some variation on that diversion from the issue.
> GitHub gets their own rights to your code.
This is preposterous and false. GitHub has the right to display the entire work, properly attributed and licensed, to others.
No new licenses are given, no dual-licensing takes place, no code-laundering is permitted.
This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service, except that as part of the right to archive Your Content, GitHub may permit our partners to store and archive Your Content in public repositories in connection with the GitHub Arctic Code Vault and GitHub Archive Program.
from their terms of service: "Short version: You own content you create, but you allow us certain rights to it, so that we can display and share the content you post." emphasis mine.
that's what they call the "Short version" of the following paragraphs, which are found here: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
they allow themselves the right to display content you upload to others. GitHub does not seem to really put a cap on that in terms of what intentions it needs to have or for what purposes it needs to share your content.
this seems to me that, by putting your code on github.com, that you are granting GitHub license to show it to others. period. IANAL, but it seems like all code anyone puts on github.com is dual-licensed, at least. GitHub gets their own rights to your code.
I read this before I signed up, and while I can't remember if this exact passage was present at the time, I was ok with everything GitHub wanted at the time, and I continue to be.
githubcopilotinvestigation.com doesn't seem to have much hope of doing anything except getting people mad. but you all were already mad anyway, weren't ya?