> “If you look at the GitHub Terms of Service, no matter what license you use, you give GitHub the right to host your code and to use your code to improve their products and features,” [Kate] Downing, [an IP lawyer specializing in FOSS compliance] says. “So with respect to code that’s already on GitHub, I think the answer to the question of copyright infringement is fairly straightforward.”
This has some interesting implications – for example, it means I can't mirror somebody else's (open source) code on GitHub without their explicit agreement.
This has some interesting implications – for example, it means I can't mirror somebody else's (open source) code on GitHub without their explicit agreement.