GitHub Acceptable Use Policies

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 you can post, conduct on the service, 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 our Terms of Service, Corporate Terms of Service, and Privacy Statement. For customers subject to the Corporate Terms of Service, "you" and "your" refer to "Customer" or "Users". "We", "us", "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, as well as in our Terms of Service and Corporate Terms of Service.

2. Content Restrictions

Under no circumstances will Users upload, post, host, execute, or transmit any Content that:

• is unlawful or promotes unlawful activities;

• is or contains sexually obscene content;

• is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;

• is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;

• gratuitously depicts or glorifies violence, including violent images;

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

• directly supports unlawful active attack or malware campaigns that are causing technical harms — such as using our platform to deliver malicious executables or as attack infrastructure, for example by organizing denial of service attacks or managing command and control servers — with no implicit or explicit dual-use purpose prior to the abuse occurring; or

• 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; or

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

Please see our Community Guidelines for more details.

3. Conduct Restrictions

While using the Service, under no circumstances will you:

• harass, abuse, threaten, or incite violence towards any individual or group, including our employees, officers, and agents, or other users;

• post off-topic content, or interact with platform features, in a way that significantly or repeatedly disrupts the experience of other users;

• use our servers for any form of excessive automated bulk activity (for example, spamming or cryptocurrency mining), to place undue burden on our servers through automated means, or to relay any form of unsolicited advertising or solicitation through our servers, such as get-rich-quick schemes;

• use our servers to disrupt or to attempt to disrupt, or to gain or to attempt to gain unauthorized access to, any service, device, data, account or network (unless authorized by the GitHub Bug Bounty program);

• impersonate 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

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

Please see our Community Guidelines for more details.

4. Spam and Inauthentic Activity on GitHub

Automated excessive bulk activity and coordinated inauthentic activity, such as spamming, are prohibited on GitHub. Prohibited activities include:

• 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
• using GitHub as a platform for propagating abuse on other platforms
• phishing or attempted phishing

5. Services Usage Limits

You will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service without our express written permission.

6. Information Usage Restrictions

You may use information from our Service for the following reasons, regardless of whether the information was scraped, collected through our API, or obtained otherwise:

• Researchers may use public, non-personal information from the Service for research purposes, only if any publications resulting from that research are