Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] New GitLab Terms of Service

[Aaron Wolf]

On 03/01/2017 07:16 AM, Andrew Ferguson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I rarely use GitHub, but sometimes it is necessary to contribute to
> others' projects, and when I logged on today I noticed that yesterday
> (28th February) GitHub introduced a new Terms of Service agreement
> <https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/>.
> 
> This potentially could change GitHub's rating on the criteria, although
> I have had a brief look through and there is nothing that jumps out as
> being particularly bad. I'd appreciate if (and advise) that someone more
> experienced in these matters than me looks over them, to see if they
> might affect GitHub's rating.
> 
> One interesting thing I did note in the Terms is that GitHub has
> licensed them
> <https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/#3-license-to-github-policies>
> under the Creative Commons Attribution license, which I find interesting
> (I know that there are reasons the FSF only permits verbatim copying of
> the GPL). This doesn't particularly affect the Terms themselves, but as
> they can now be modified it might help other services who are looking
> for help getting terms - I seem to remember that this was the case with
> NotABug as of May last year, although that issue has now been resolved.
> 
> Andrew

Wrong subject! You wrote "GitLab" in the subject instead of GitHub!

The CC-BY license for GitHub's terms is great, it means the legal terms
can be adapted and reused as useful.

I haven't otherwise reviewed the updates