On Monday 15 June 2015 15:34:04 Bertho Stultiens wrote: > On 06/15/2015 04:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Copyright 2015 Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved. > > > > I had printed out something I had an interest in a few days ago, and > > when I picked it up just now, I see a very disturbing to me, notice > > at the bottom of the last page saying > > CopyRight 2015 GitHub, inc. > > Afaik the copyright notice relates to TOS section A.8, F.4 and G.6 > (IANAL). That is, everything related to the github site and > infrastructure, not the user content. > > > No wonder I am seeing derogatory remarks all over about GitHub > > recently, they are trying the same thing Yahoo tried 15 years ago, > > claiming copyright on anything that passes thru their servers. > > As per TOS section F.1, they claim no ownership on your content. > > Actually, it looks like github has changed their TOS. > > Last time I checked they had that obnoxious clause(*) about requiring > a perpetual non-revocable ...blabla... license to everything you > uploaded into your project for being able to do advertising, including > third party dependency shit. Now they are much more friendly and, on > the surface, the TOS actually seems to be FLOSS compatible. > > > (*) See f.ex. instructables' TOS section 3.b.
You read more into it than I did, and the clarification seems to be good, thanks Bertho. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
