This seems to be the line of argumentation agreed upon by several waffling pro-GitHub posters. Many comments have some variation on that diversion from the issue.
> GitHub gets their own rights to your code.
This is preposterous and false. GitHub has the right to display the entire work, properly attributed and licensed, to others.
No new licenses are given, no dual-licensing takes place, no code-laundering is permitted.
This seems to be the line of argumentation agreed upon by several waffling pro-GitHub posters. Many comments have some variation on that diversion from the issue.
> GitHub gets their own rights to your code.
This is preposterous and false. GitHub has the right to display the entire work, properly attributed and licensed, to others.
No new licenses are given, no dual-licensing takes place, no code-laundering is permitted.