[chuinard]

Some of your questions aren't easy to answer. Maybe the first two were OK to ask. Others would probably require lawyers and maybe even courts to decide. This is a pretty cool new product just being shared on an online discussion forum. If you are serious about using it for a company, talk to your lawyers, get in touch with Github's people, and maybe hash out these very specific details on the side. Your comment came off as super negative to me.

[Tainnor]

> This is a pretty cool new product just being shared on an online discussion forum.

This is not one lone developer with a passion promoting their cool side-project. It's GitHub, which is an established brand and therefore already has a leg up, promoting their new project for active use.

I think in this case, it's very relevant to post these kinds of questions here, since other people will very probably have similar questions.

[peddling-brink]

I think these are very important questions.

The commenter isn't interrogating some indy programmer. This is a product of a subsidiary of Microsoft, who I guarantee has already had a lawyer, or several, consider these questions.

[king_magic]

No, they are all entirely reasonable questions. Yeah, they might require lawyers to answer - tough shit. Understanding the legal landscape that ones' product lives in is part of a company's responsibility.

[ericbarrett]

Regardless of tone, I thought it was chock full of great questions that raised all kinds of important issues, and I’m really curious to hear the answers.