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Binaries are not part of your Git repository, but are stored separately by Github. Once you create the release, simply view it and copy the link to the binary you want to refer to. …

One clarifying point: there is usually a legal obligation to keep original copyright notices with original license headers and texts. There is not usually a legal obligation to "link back" -- this doe …

GitHub user accounts, including organization accounts, have nothing to do with legal ownership of the copyright of work posted under those accounts. … This doesn't have anything specifically to do with GitHub organizations, but if you posted code under a GitHub organization that represents an organization with whom you have a legal contract, having posted …

The issue described here is that if Bob posts Alice's open source code to Github, Github requires specific rights to the code that Alice may not have granted in her open source license. … Also, it's plausible (though I cannot say for sure) that if Alice has her code on Github already, then Bob can offer the rights Github requires (or perhaps does not need to offer them) since Github has …

This is especially important if I have many zero-star repositories, because some of them may not appear on my profile page at all (since GitHub limits the list to 5 repos). … Note, however, this may simply be an artifact of when GitHub first introduced stars and automatically converted all "Watch" relationships to stars. See SztupY's answer for more information. …

This is directly addressed in the GPL FAQ item, "Is it enough just to put a copy of the GNU GPL in my repository?" Just putting a copy of the GNU GPL in a file in your repository does not explicitly …

Do I have to apply or register with some kind of group or organisation to be able to use a license given in the list of GitHub templates, or can I just slap a template on my work? …

You only have rights that the author is required to offer you under the Github terms of service, which does not include the ability to prepare derivatives. … Largely, Github only requires rights necessary to protect themselves from legal action (e.g., rendering someone else's code on their website, indexing contributions in a search database, making sure their …

No, it is not legal to remove the copyright notice of a contributor who has offered a copyrightable contribution under the MIT license. Jeff has offered his work to Mark under the MIT license and Mark …

Your question concerns a case where Author A publishes original work under the GNU GPL, and then Person B uploads it to GitHub. … Person B does not have standing to perform a transfer of title to GitHub, since they don't hold ownership of the copyright title. …

I didn't like that, so I found an old copy of 1.0 I had downloaded last year and uploaded it to GitHub. What part of this process do you want to prevent? …

Any free and open source license will permit resale and modification. However, you may be interested in a copyleft license like the GNU GPL, which requires binary distributions (modified or unmodifi …

I would not expect that Rubberduck VBA, as an unincorporated organization that lacks legal personhood, is an entity that can own a copyright (though this may vary by jurisdiction). Furthermore, unless …

As far as I can tell, the GPL does not require you to indicate what specific changes you make to a GPL-licensed work. The GPLv3 says The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified …

You may act just as you would if the owner had not removed their copy. The GPLv3 is explicitly irrevocable: All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, …