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GitHub General Terms

This Agreement consists of the General Terms, the applicable Product Specific Terms for the products and services you use, and any additional terms mutually agreed when an Order is placed. The Agreement takes effect when Customer accepts the General Terms, and the individual who accepts these General Terms represents that they are authorized to enter into this Agreement on behalf of Customer.

If you purchase GitHub under a Microsoft agreement, these terms do not apply to you and your use of GitHub is instead governed by your Microsoft volume licensing agreement, including the Microsoft Product Terms for GitHub Offerings.

GitHub General Terms

These General Terms apply to all of Customer’s Orders under this Agreement. Capitalized terms have the meanings given under Definitions below.

1 License to use GitHub Products

1.1 License grant. Products are licensed and not sold. Subject to Customer’s compliance with this Agreement, GitHub grants to Customer a nonexclusive and limited license to install and use the Products ordered as provided in the applicable Product Specific Terms and this Agreement. The licenses are only for Customer’s internal business purposes and are non-transferable except as expressly permitted under this Agreement or applicable law.

1.2 Duration of licenses. Licenses expire at the end of the applicable Subscription Term unless renewed.

1.3 Accounts. Customer may assign each Subscription License to one individual End User for use or access on any number of devices. For volume-based Subscription Licenses, Customer may not reassign a Subscription License to another End User within 90 days of the last assignment, except where End User’s relationship with Customer ends or End User goes on leave. End User accounts may not be shared by individuals. For GitHub’s cloud-based offerings, a Subscription License provides access to only one (1) cloud service at a time, such as to GitHub.com or to an enterprise-managed environment in GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Access to multiple different cloud environments at the same time for a single End User requires separate Subscription Licenses. For example, for the same End User to access both a US-based enterprise and a Europe-based enterprise at the same time would require two (2) Subscription Licenses.

1.4 End Users. Customer controls access to and use of the Products by End Users. Customer is responsible for its End Users’ use.

1.5 Product Specific Terms. Product Specific Terms apply to certain Products, such as GitHub Enterprise Cloud and GitHub Enterprise Server. If there is a conflict between a Product’s Product Specific Terms and these General Terms, the Product Specific Terms govern as to that Product.

1.6 Early access and other pre-release software. From time to time, GitHub may allow you to opt in to experimental functionality or to preview services that are still in development and not yet generally available. If you choose to participate in such a preview, your use of the pre-release software or services will not be governed by this document and will instead be governed by GitHub's standard pre-release license terms. GitHub may change or discontinue these previews at any time without notice.

1.7 Product changes. GitHub has the right to make changes to the Products if such changes do not materially lessen the Product’s functionality. GitHub may provide additional terms that apply to Customer’s use of updates, new features, or related software.