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As the global response to the tragedies in Ukraine and other impacted regions continues to evolve, I wanted to share with our community an expansion of the message that I shared earlier this week with our Hubbers.
In GitHub's latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.
When digital infrastructure is overlooked by governments, it isn't just a missed opportunity: policies may inadvertently endanger open source collaboration.
GitHub was honored to contribute to the Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation 2.0.
Last week, GitHub joined the Internet Governance Forum to spread awareness of developers’ initiatives and public policy interests.
Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research.
GitHub puts the needs of developers at the core of our content moderation policies. Learn more about our approach and how you can contribute.
As part of GitHub's strong commitment to developer privacy, we are excited to announce updates to our privacy agreements in line with new legal requirements and our own robust data protection practices.
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals.
The GitHub Social Impact and Policy teams are issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a researcher to define a list of publicly available GitHub platform usage metrics by country for international development, public policy and economics disciplines.
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.
GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the software ecosystem.
When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.
One month ago, we started a discussion with the community about proposed revisions to clarify GitHub’s policies on security research, malware, and exploits with the goal to enable, welcome, and encourage dual-use security research and collaboration on GitHub. We want to thank the broader security research community, project maintainers, and developers who shared feedback with […]
April 30, 2021 update: Thank you to everyone who’s weighed in on the discussion so far. I’ve commented in the pull request to clarify a few points based on initial feedback. Keep the comments coming. We’re calling for feedback on our policy around security research, malware, and exploits on the platform so that the security […]
The modern internet was built on a legal framework of safe harbors for user-generated content. These safe harbors are widely credited with having enabled global internet innovation by protecting online platforms from liability for user content they host. Despite this, they are increasingly at risk around the world as regulators look to curb objectionable content […]