[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.