[LEDE-DEV] Github's new TOS

[David Lang]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Daniel Golle wrote:

> Sounds very reasonable to me. From what I understood that was all
> about partial quotes which show up as part of search-results and the
> github website without the attribution required or full-text license
> next to it. In a way that sounded like an excuse, because they could
> just embed the required text-blocks into the site and display them
> on-mouse-over of the SPDX tag, which would technically speaking make
> that change in their usage terms unnessecary, thus I got suspicous.

haivng to send a large chunk of license data for each snippet in a search result 
would greatly multiply the size of the downloaded page, not nice to users.

This change seems reasonable to me.

David Lang