Open source in the 5G stack
Developers know the value of openness, and increasingly policymakers are taking note. Open source and open standards approaches offer promising solutions to mounting policy problems related to digital sovereignty. One…
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Find detailed announcements and explanations from GitHub’s internal teams regarding new regulations, compliance requirements, and policy adjustments. By providing clear and comprehensive information on these changes, we aim to help developers and organizations understand what evolving regulatory environments mean in practice.
Fighting for developers: GitHub policy 2020 in review
GitHub is committed to shaping public policies that support developers around the globe. Last year, we advised policymakers, supported legal action, and spoke directly to developers on policy in jurisdictions…
Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran
Today we are announcing a breakthrough: we have secured a license from the US government to offer GitHub to developers in Iran. This includes all services for individuals and organizations, private and public, free and paid.
GitHub joins amicus brief warning of systemic risk from private sector offensive actors
Today, GitHub joined an amicus brief in NSO v. WhatsApp, opposing the expansion of foreign sovereign immunity to private cyber-surveillance companies that act on behalf of foreign governments. GitHub joined…
Inspired by Open Source: Balanced Employee Intellectual Property Agreement 2.0
GitHub is on a mission to accelerate human progress through developer collaboration. We do that by empowering our own employees to use their creativity to learn, play, and build great…
Take action: DMCA anti-circumvention and developer innovation
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net — impacting users…
Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement now merged
As part of GitHub’s commitment to developers, we open source the policies that govern our platform and welcome feedback at any time in our site-policy repository. When we make material…
Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
Commit your vote on election day!
Closing that priority issue you’re working on can wait—put down your keyboard and vote! Millions of you already have, and your vote in national and local elections may just impact…
Vote, and contribute to democracy through open source
November 3 is election day in the U.S. Early voting is available in most states. If you haven’t yet, make a plan to vote. If you’re an employer in the…
Updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Statement
We regularly update our policies to reflect the evolution of our products, changing legal requirements, and user feedback. In this update, we’ve made some changes to our Terms of Service,…
Standing by developers through Google v. Oracle
This article originally appeared in TechCrunch, and is republished here with permission. The Supreme Court heard arguments October 7 in Google v. Oracle. This case raises a fundamental question for…
Safe harbors for software collaboration, part 1
As policymakers grapple with how to address hate speech and disinformation on the internet, they’re eying the legal structure underpinning collaborative software development: legal safe harbors. These safe harbors protect…
Ensure your neighbors have the right to vote: A software engineer volunteers at his local elections office
This post is the second in a series on access and the U.S. elections. Hear from Software Engineer and GitHub Senior Director of Strategic Programs, Kyle Daigle, on his experience volunteering at his local election office.
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