Acceptable Use Policies

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GitHub Acceptable Use Policies

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Short version: We host a wide variety of collaborative projects from all over the world, and that collaboration only works when our users are able to work together in good faith. While using the Service, you must comply with our Acceptable Use Policies, which include some restrictions on content and conduct on GitHub related to user safety, intellectual property, privacy, authenticity, and other limitations. In short, be excellent to each other.

Capitalized terms used but not defined in these Acceptable Use Policies have the meanings assigned to them in your main agreement with us — the GitHub Terms of Service or GitHub Customer Agreement, or the GitHub Corporate Terms of Service or other legacy GitHub contract, or a Microsoft volume licensing agreement. For customers subject to the legacy Corporate Terms of Service, "you" and "your" refer to "Customer" or "Users". "We", "us", and "our" refer to "GitHub".

1. Compliance with Laws and Regulations

You are responsible for using the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and all of our Acceptable Use Policies. These policies may be updated from time to time and are provided below.

2. User Safety

We do not allow content or activity on GitHub that:

is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;

is sexually obscene or relates to sexual exploitation or abuse, including of minors;

is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;

is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;

is false, inaccurate, or intentionally deceptive information and likely to adversely affect the public interest (including health, safety, election integrity, and civic participation);

harasses or abuses another individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;

threatens or incites violence toward any individual or group, especially on the basis of who they are;

gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images; or

is off-topic, or interacts with platform features in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users.

3. Intellectual Property, Authenticity, and Private Information

We do not allow content or activity on GitHub that:

infringes any proprietary right of any party, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, right of publicity, or other right;

unlawfully shares unauthorized product licensing keys, software for generating unauthorized product licensing keys, or software for bypassing checks for product licensing keys, including extension of a free license beyond its trial period;

impersonates any person or entity, including any of our employees or representatives, including through false association with GitHub, or by fraudulently misrepresenting your identity or site's purpose; or

violates the privacy of any third party, such as by posting another person's personal information without consent.

4. Spam and Inauthentic Activity on GitHub

We do not allow content or activity on GitHub that is:

• automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as

spamming

• cryptocurrency mining;

• bulk distribution of promotions and advertising prohibited by GitHub terms and policies;

• inauthentic interactions, such as fake accounts and automated inauthentic activity;

• rank abuse, such as automated starring or following;

• creation of or participation in secondary markets for the purpose of the proliferation of inauthentic activity;