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Update to the Corporate Terms of Service - Summer 2019 #171

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@leithia leithia commented Jun 3, 2019

We regularly update our policies to reflect the evolution of our products, legal requirements, clarification requests, and user feedback. We post updates to our policies in this repo to get your feedback before they go live.

This time around, we focused on our Corporate Terms of Service and Enterprise Agreement and made a number of changes to improve our customers' experience, including by

  • streamlining the terms to make them more straightforward and easier to understand, and
  • aligning the overall structure of these documents and the terms with the diverse set of products we offer and our categories of customers.

This update to the Corporate Terms of Service includes changes to or the addition of the following sections:

  • "Short Version" summaries
  • Definitions
  • Account Terms
  • Acceptable Use
  • Content Responsibility; Ownership; License Rights
  • Private Repositories
  • API Terms
  • Advertising on GitHub
  • Payment
  • Support
  • Term; Termination; Suspension
  • Limited Warranties; Disclaimer
  • Limitation of Liability
  • Defense of Claims; Release
  • Subscription Licenses
  • Affiliates
  • Beta Previews
  • Features
  • General formatting and organization

The comment period on this PR ends on July 1 at 5 pm PT. We'll go through any comments we receive and carefully consider making further improvements, and then merge the new changes into master to make the new terms effective.

leithia added 3 commits May 31, 2019
@leithia leithia changed the base branch from master to corporate-terms-of-service-spring-2019 Jun 3, 2019
@vollmera vollmera changed the base branch from corporate-terms-of-service-spring-2019 to master Jun 6, 2019
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@vollmera vollmera commented Jun 6, 2019

I believe the intent is to merge this into master so I changed the base branch.

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@leithia leithia commented Jul 1, 2019

As stated in the original post, the comment period ends today. In reviewing the PR with fresh eyes, we added a few more updates. I've updated the OP to add the additional sections in which we made changes. These terms are effective tomorrow July 2.

leithia and others added 2 commits Jul 1, 2019
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@leithia leithia merged commit 96c0ab3 into master Jul 2, 2019
@leithia leithia deleted the corporate-terms-of-service-summer-2019 branch Jul 2, 2019
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