[detaro]

It's fair to expect a international company pushing its products all over the world to be prepared to comment on non-US jurisdictions. (I have some sympathy for "we have a local market, and that's what we are solely targeting and preparing for" in companies where that is actually the case, but that's really not what we are dealing with in the case of Microsoft/GitHub)

[toomuchtodo]

One would expect GitHub (owned by Microsoft) to have engaged corporate counsel for an opinion (backed by statue and case law), and to be prepared to disable the functionality in jurisdictions where it’s incompatible with local IP law.