Content, User-Generated Content and Your Content are defined by who creates them
“Content” is code, text, data, documentation, images, graphics, software, packages and other materials made available through the Service. “User-Generated Content” is Content that you or other users upload, submit or create through the Service. “Your Content” is User-Generated Content that you upload, submit or create, including your modifications to Content you have forked or cloned, but it does not include the underlying Content created by others.
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"Content" means code, text, data, documentation, images, graphics, software, packages, and other materials made available through the Service.
"User-Generated Content" means Content that you or other users upload, submit, or create through the Service.
"Your Content" means User-Generated Content that you upload, submit, or create, including your modifications to Content you have forked or cloned. It does not include the underlying Content created by others.
Qualifications & exceptions
Forked or cloned Content: only your modifications count as Your Content, not the underlying Content others created.
Content & IP Rights · Company practice
GitHub and its licensors keep all IP rights in the Website and Service and reserve rights not expressly granted
GitHub and its licensors, vendors, agents and content providers retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the Website and Service. GitHub reserves all rights not expressly granted to you under the Agreement or by law, and states that the look and feel of the Website and Service is copyright GitHub, Inc.
The reservation covers rights “not expressly granted” by the Agreement or by law.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You may not copy or reuse GitHub's HTML/CSS, JavaScript or visual design without express written permission
You may not duplicate, copy or reuse any portion of the HTML/CSS, JavaScript, or visual design elements or concepts of the Website and Service without express written permission from GitHub.
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You may not duplicate, copy, or reuse any portion of the HTML/CSS, JavaScript, or visual design elements or concepts without express written permission from GitHub.
Qualifications & exceptions
The restriction is lifted by express written permission from GitHub.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Using GitHub's trademarks requires following its trademark guidelines, including those on its logos page
If you would like to use GitHub's trademarks, you must follow all of GitHub's trademark guidelines, including those on its logos page.
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If you’d like to use GitHub’s trademarks, you must follow all of our trademark guidelines, including those on our logos page: [https://github.com/logos](https://github.com/logos).
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The trademark guidelines and logos page are referenced but their text is not part of this document.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
The GitHub policy text itself is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero license
This Agreement (the text of the terms) is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero license, with details in GitHub's site-policy repository. This is a statement about the license of the policy text, separate from the rights granted over the Website and Service.
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This Agreement is licensed under this [Creative Commons Zero license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
For details, see our [site-policy repository](https://github.com/github/site-policy#license).
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The terms of the Creative Commons Zero license and the site-policy repository's license note are not part of this document.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
GitHub does not claim ownership of your Input or Output
GitHub states that it does not claim ownership of your Input or Output. Input is content or context you provide to an AI Feature, such as prompts, attachments, workspace code and conversation history; Output is the responses and suggestions an AI Feature generates.
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GitHub does not claim ownership of your Input or Output.
“Input” means any content or context provided to an AI Feature, including prompts, attachments, code in your workspace, and conversation history.
"Output" means responses and suggestions, including code or other material, generated by an AI Feature.
Qualifications & exceptions
The statement concerns ownership only; Section J.3 separately describes a license to collect and use Inputs and Outputs.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Output may resemble training data or third-party licensed code, and you must check whether you need a license
Output may contain material that resembles code or content in the model's training data or that is subject to third-party copyrights or open source license terms. You are responsible for determining whether your use of Output requires a third-party license and for complying with any such license.
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Output may contain material that resembles code or content in the model's training data or that is subject to third-party copyrights or open source license terms. You are responsible for determining whether your use of Output requires a third-party license and for complying with any such license.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
The J.3 license adds to the D.4 and D.8 rights and does not reach repository Content not provided as Input
The license in Section J.3 is in addition to, and does not limit, the rights granted to GitHub and its Affiliates under Sections D.4 and D.8. It does not extend to Your Content stored in repositories that is not provided as Input to an AI Feature.
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The license in this Section J.3 is in addition to, and does not limit, the rights granted to GitHub and its Affiliates under Sections D.4 and D.8. This license does not extend to Your Content stored in repositories that are not provided as Input to an AI Feature.
You grant GitHub and our Affiliates the right to store, host, archive, parse, display, and make copies of Your Content as necessary to provide, develop, and improve the Service, including by training AI Features
Qualifications & exceptions
The exclusion concerns Your Content in repositories that is not provided as Input to an AI Feature.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Feedback you give GitHub is licensed to it royalty-free, perpetually, irrevocably, transferably and sublicensably
If you choose to give GitHub ideas, know-how, algorithms, code contributions, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or any other feedback for its products or services (“Feedback”), you acknowledge and agree that GitHub will have a royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable and perpetual license to implement, use, modify, commercially exploit and incorporate the Feedback into its products, services and documentation.
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If you choose to give us any ideas, know-how, algorithms, code contributions, suggestions, enhancement requests, recommendations or any other feedback for our products or services (collectively, “Feedback”), you acknowledge and agree that GitHub will have a royalty-free, fully paid-up, worldwide, transferable, sub-licensable, irrevocable and perpetual license to implement, use, modify, commercially exploit and/or incorporate the Feedback into our products, services, and documentation.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is triggered when you choose to give Feedback; the section is framed around Beta Preview users.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
You are responsible for Your Content and any harm from it; GitHub disclaims responsibility for public display or misuse
You are responsible for Your Content and any harm resulting from it, including Content you post, upload or make available through the Service. GitHub says it is not responsible for any public display or misuse of Your Content.
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You are responsible for Your Content and any harm resulting from it. This includes Content you post, upload, or make available through the Service. We are not responsible for any public display or misuse of Your Content.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
GitHub may refuse or remove User-Generated Content that violates law or its terms and policies
GitHub may refuse or remove User-Generated Content that violates applicable law or GitHub's terms and policies. GitHub says it accesses private repositories only as described in Section E. Content shown on GitHub Mobile may be subject to app store terms.
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We may refuse or remove User-Generated Content that violates applicable law or our terms and policies. We access private repositories only as described in Section E. Content displayed on GitHub Mobile may be subject to app store terms.
"User-Generated Content" means Content that you or other users upload, submit, or create through the Service.
Qualifications & exceptions
The removal right is tied to content that violates applicable law or GitHub's terms and policies.
The private-repository access statement points to Section E for when access happens.
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Which app store terms may apply to GitHub Mobile is not specified.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
You own Your Content, and must have the right and license to post anything you did not create
You own Your Content. If you post Content you did not create, you are responsible for ensuring you have the right to post it and for complying with any applicable licenses. “Your Content” means your own User-Generated Content, including your modifications to forked or cloned Content, and does not include the underlying Content created by others.
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You own Your Content. If you post Content you did not create, you are responsible for ensuring you have the right to post it and for complying with any applicable licenses.
It does not include the underlying Content created by others.
Qualifications & exceptions
Ownership is stated for Your Content as defined in section A, which excludes the underlying Content created by others.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You grant the D.4 to D.8 licenses unpaid; they end when you remove Your Content unless it was forked
You grant GitHub and other Users the licenses in Sections D.4 to D.8, and they apply to Your Content. If Your Content already includes a license giving GitHub the permissions it needs, no additional license is required. You will not receive payment for these rights. The licenses end when you remove Your Content, unless other Users have forked it.
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You grant us and other Users the licenses in Sections D.4–D.8. These licenses apply to Your Content. If Your Content already includes a license granting us the permissions we need, no additional license is required. You will not receive payment for these rights. These licenses end when you remove Your Content, unless other Users have forked it.
Qualifications & exceptions
The end of the licenses on removal is subject to the exception for Content other Users have forked.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You license GitHub and Affiliates to store, host, copy and share Your Content as needed to run and improve the Service
You grant GitHub and its Affiliates the right to store, host, archive, parse, display and make copies of Your Content as necessary to provide, develop and improve the Service. The license includes copying it to GitHub's database and making backups, showing it to you and other Users, parsing it into a search index or otherwise analyzing it on GitHub's servers, sharing it with other Users, and performing it if it is something like music or video.
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You grant GitHub and our Affiliates the right to store, host, archive, parse, display, and make copies of Your Content as necessary to provide, develop, and improve the Service
This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other Users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other Users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.
Qualifications & exceptions
The rights are limited to what is “necessary” to provide, develop and improve the Service.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Public repositories let others view and fork Your Content under a nonexclusive, worldwide license
Your Content that you post publicly, including issues, comments and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork them. By making a repository public, you grant other Users a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, perform and reproduce (by forking) Your Content through the Service as permitted by GitHub's functionality. You may grant additional rights by adopting a license. If you post Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring it is licensed under terms that permit these uses.
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Your Content that you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories
By making a repository public, you grant other Users a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, perform and reproduce (by forking) Your Content through the Service as permitted by GitHub's functionality. You may grant additional rights by adopting a license. If you post Content you did not create or own, you are responsible for ensuring it is licensed under terms that permit these uses.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license to other Users is limited to use through the Service as permitted by GitHub's functionality.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Content added to a licensed repository is licensed on that repository's terms unless a separate agreement differs
Whenever you add Content to a repository containing notice of a license, you license that Content under the same terms and agree you have the right to license it under those terms. If you have a separate agreement to license that Content under different terms, such as a contributor license agreement, that agreement supersedes.
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Whenever you add Content to a repository containing notice of a license, you license that Content under the same terms, and you agree that you have the right to license that Content under those terms. If you have a separate agreement to license that Content under different terms, such as a contributor license agreement, that agreement will supersede.
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A separate agreement on different terms, such as a contributor license agreement, supersedes this rule.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
You keep moral rights in Your Content but waive asserting them against GitHub and Affiliates to the extent D.4 requires
You retain all moral rights to Your Content, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against GitHub or its Affiliates, to enable them to reasonably exercise the rights granted in Section D.4, but not otherwise. To the extent the agreement is not enforceable by applicable law, you grant GitHub the rights it needs to use Your Content without attribution and to make reasonable adaptations as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service.
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You retain all moral rights to Your Content that you upload, publish, or submit to any part of the Service, including the rights of integrity and attribution. However, you waive these rights and agree not to assert them against us or our Affiliates, to enable GitHub and our Affiliates to reasonably exercise the rights granted in Section D.4, but not otherwise.
To the extent this agreement is not enforceable by applicable law, you grant GitHub the rights we need to use Your Content without attribution and to make reasonable adaptations of Your Content as necessary to render the Website and provide the Service.
Qualifications & exceptions
The waiver is limited to enabling GitHub and Affiliates to reasonably exercise the D.4 rights, “but not otherwise.”
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Automated access to public Content to train a commercial AI system waives your own terms limiting GitHub's access
If you use automated means to access, collect or otherwise use publicly accessible Content from the Service to develop or train a commercially available AI model, machine learning system or similar technology (a “Commercial AI System”), you waive any policies, terms, conditions or contractual provisions governing products, services, websites or datasets you own or operate that would otherwise prohibit, restrict or place conditions on GitHub's access to publicly accessible data, information or content associated with them, including to develop or train a Commercial AI System. You also agree not to impose technical or other targeted measures to restrict or retaliate against that access. Section D.9 does not apply in the two situations described in its exceptions.
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By using automated means to access, collect, or otherwise use (“Access”) any publicly accessible Content from the Service for the purpose of developing or training any commercially available artificial intelligence model, machine learning system, or similar technology (a "Commercial AI System"), you hereby waive any and all policies, terms, conditions, or contractual provisions governing products, services, websites or datasets you own or operate that would otherwise prohibit, restrict, or place conditions upon GitHub's Access to any publicly accessible data, information or content associated with your products or services, including for the purpose of developing or training any Commercial AI System. You further agree not to impose technical or other targeted measures to restrict or retaliate against such Access.
This Section D.9 does not apply to Access solely for the purpose of academic research or if, on the date you Access the Content, the number of monthly active users of the products or services made available by you is less than 700 million in the preceding calendar month.
Qualifications & exceptions
The waiver is triggered by automated access for the purpose of developing or training a Commercial AI System.
The exceptions are for access solely for academic research, or where your monthly active users on the access date were under 700 million in the preceding calendar month.
Content & IP Rights · User right or choice
You may enable features needing extra rights to private repository Content; GitHub says it will explain them
You may choose to enable additional access to your private repositories. For example, you may enable GitHub services or features that require additional rights to Your Content in private repositories. Those rights may vary by service or feature, but GitHub says it will continue to treat your private repository Content as confidential. If the services or features require rights beyond those GitHub needs to provide the GitHub Service, GitHub says it will explain those rights.
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You may choose to enable additional access to your private repositories. For example:
You may enable various GitHub services or features that require additional rights to Your Content in private repositories. These rights may vary depending on the service or feature, but GitHub will continue to treat your private repository Content as confidential. If those services or features require rights in addition to those we need to provide the GitHub Service, we will provide an explanation of those rights.
Qualifications & exceptions
The explanation of additional rights is promised for rights beyond those needed to provide the GitHub Service.
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Which services or features require additional rights, and what those rights are, is not stated here.