I don't know that this is an issue, but a change of terms associated with 
an essential service need to be checked with care. 

According a blog entry posted on March 1 by Debian Developer Joey Hess, 

The new TOS is potentially very bad for copylefted Free Software. It 
> potentially neuters it entirely, so GPL licensed software hosted on Github 
> has an implicit BSD-like license. I'll leave the full analysis to the 
> lawyers, but see Thorsten's analysis 
> <https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm#e20170301-tg_wlog-10>
> . 
>

 Joey Hess's copy of the new Terms of Service, which can be read without 
agreeing to those terms <https://tmp.joeyh.name/github-tos.pdf> 

Thorsten Glaser's analysis was published on February 28. begins as follows: 

The new Terms of Service of GitHub became effective today, which is quite 
> problematic — there was a review phase, but the problems were not answered, 
> and, while the language is somewhat changed from the draft, they became 
> effective immediately.
>
 

Now, the new ToS are not so bad that one immediately must stop using their 
> service for disagreement, but it’s important that certain content may no 
> longer legally be pushed to GitHub. I’ll try to explain which is affected, 
> and why.


Glaser's link to the new Terms of Service 
<https://help.github.com/articles/github-terms-of-service/> 

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