Comment Re:open = being able to have your own build bypass (Score 1) 122
Also, GitHub /doesn't/ require you to pick an open source license for public repositories. You can choose whatever the hell damn license you want.
The only thing you do by accepting the GitHub terms of service is grant some rights, namely that everyone can see and fork your repository (which might qualify as "open source" in your book, but I view as a cop-out). Of course, this still doesn't give anyone the rights to actually do anything with the code besides looking at it.
Which is one of the reasons many free software proponents have been dismayed by the amount of license-less GitHub repository. To answer that, GitHub added the license picker for newly created repositories, but that thing still is completely optional.
The only thing you do by accepting the GitHub terms of service is grant some rights, namely that everyone can see and fork your repository (which might qualify as "open source" in your book, but I view as a cop-out). Of course, this still doesn't give anyone the rights to actually do anything with the code besides looking at it.
Which is one of the reasons many free software proponents have been dismayed by the amount of license-less GitHub repository. To answer that, GitHub added the license picker for newly created repositories, but that thing still is completely optional.