Re: Licensing concerns raised by new terms of service for GitHub

[Edward K. Ream]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 4:57 PM, David Szent-Györgyi 
wrote:

> I don't know that this is an issue, but a change of terms associated with
> an essential service need to be checked with care.
>

​I care nothing for such things.​

​ In practice, nobody is going to be complaining about Leo's MIT license.
It's quiet time.  Please, let us not discuss this further now.

Edward

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Licensing concerns raised by new terms of service for GitHub

[David Szent-Györgyi]

I don't know that this is an issue, but a change of terms associated with 
an essential service need to be checked with care. 

According a blog entry posted on March 1 by Debian Developer Joey Hess, 

The new TOS is potentially very bad for copylefted Free Software. It 
> potentially neuters it entirely, so GPL licensed software hosted on Github 
> has an implicit BSD-like license. I'll leave the full analysis to the 
> lawyers, but see Thorsten's analysis 
> 
> . 
>

 Joey Hess's copy of the new Terms of Service, which can be read without 
agreeing to those terms  

Thorsten Glaser's analysis was published on February 28. begins as follows: 

The new Terms of Service of GitHub became effective today, which is quite 
> problematic — there was a review phase, but the problems were not answered, 
> and, while the language is somewhat changed from the draft, they became 
> effective immediately.
>
 

Now, the new ToS are not so bad that one immediately must stop using their 
> service for disagreement, but it’s important that certain content may no 
> longer legally be pushed to GitHub. I’ll try to explain which is affected, 
> and why.


Glaser's link to the new Terms of Service 
 

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