[michaelmrose]

Neither git nor github can automatically discern how the law applies in context in 195 nations without consulting a lawyer and honestly neither can you.

Unless you want to pay thousands of dollars per repo presumably everyone is going to continue not giving a damn.

If you don't want people to clone a repo don't upload it to a public github repo. If you are thinking of cloning realize that the ability to clone it gives you zero legal rights.

Anyway you cannot fix legal complexities with technology in this instance.

[Kinnard]

This could be a problem for ricardian contracts and/or smart contracts

[krageon]

Those don't solve anything, because the core problem is a human one. It needs to be legal in all the countries that they might apply to, and that still requires a lot of expertise. The person you are responding to says "this is a problem technology can't fix", I assume this is the reason.