[mpchlets]

At Assembla, a project management tool that incorporates a repository service like github or bitbucket, we have a similar TOS as github:

"1. Assembla claims no copyright or other ownership rights in the Content you upload to the Service. 2. By uploading or otherwise providing Content to Assembla.com, You grant to Assembla a non-exclusive, royalty-free, paid-up right and license to use, reproduce, display and distribute such Content on Assembla.com in connection Assembla's provision of the Services to such persons as you may authorize. 3. You hereby represent and warrant that you have all intellectual property and other rights necessary concerning any Content posted by You on Assembla.com." https://www.assembla.com/terms_of_service

We do not want your data for our personal or corporate uses, we only want to display/reproduce/use your data with your expressed permission, i.e. you make your data public - the same as github.

The theory we have at Assembla is that the data is yours, always yours. We will never keep your data from you and we will never claim ownership over it.

We explicitly state that we do not own your IP because in today's world so many services are taking ownership over what you create. We feel it important to tell you right out that we do not claim ownership because if we do not, you will not know our stance.

Our stance is that we want you to feel comfortable using our service for both private and public projects for your data. We want you to be successful with a nice tool, we do not want to own your data.

[Uchikoma]

You got me confused, your

"You grant to Assembla a non-exclusive, royalty-free, paid-up right and license to use, reproduce, display and distribute such Content on Assembla.com in connection Assembla's provision of the Services to such persons as you may authorize"

sounds much more like Atlassian,

"End User hereby grants Atlassian a non-exclusive license to copy, distribute, perform, display, store, modify, and otherwise use End User Data in connection with operating the Hosted Services."

not at all like the Github TOS.

[mpchlets]

I am not even sure that Atlassian has a different TOS than Github nor Assembla.

Atlassian is just ensuring with lawyer speak that they are able to do as they need to offer you the service that you signed up for.

[mpchlets]

I think you are misunderstanding the wording: "as you may authorize" - that bit is about you making it public, and only about you making it public - nothing else. You authorize it to be made public, github says the same as "By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories"

github is just not using lawyer speak, which is definitely cooler.

[Uchikoma]

The point of the post was, you give Atlassian a license, you don't give Github one. In this regard your TOS is the same as the Atlassian one.

[mpchlets]

"However, by setting your pages to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view your Content. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories."

You are granting permission of ownership through forking to anyone - including github.