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Yes, the granted rights seem to be mostly about stuff related to repository management, and not e.g.: using the software (except audio/video).

But section D.7 ("Moral Rights") is about waiving moral rights, which at least in Italy is not legal, and then says: "To the extent this agreement is not enforceable by applicable law, you grant GitHub the rights we need to use Your Content without attribution".

It mostly seems like poor wording of that section not being limited to archiving/displaying, but there is a case where you grant Github something without need of attribution.

Which is against most Open source licenses, which means that I can't upload someone else's code.

Again IANAL, and theoretically open source projects want maximum distribution, but I think this does mean that technically I would grant to Github something I can't grant.




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