Make effective against all U.S. government employees, not just agencies #23
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The language would not have included federal employees other than those of the executive branch due to use of the word "agency." That is, an assistant to a member of Congress or the court clerk of a federal judge do not work for an "agency," but do work for the federal government. The changes expand the definition of who is covered. Jonathan Corbett jon@professional-troublemaker.com
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LOL. How many "United States federal governments" are there anyway? Line 10 says "on behalf of a United States federal government". Probably intended "on behalf of the United States federal government". The "a" got missed when "agency" was removed. I could not figure out how to directly show the change here. I have seen done for other cases, but my searches did not turn up the syntax to reference content from the 'files changed' tab, instead of standard repo file. |
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| This Amendment to GitHub's [Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies only to users that are using GitHub on behalf of a United States federal government. If you are not using GItHub on behalf of a U.S. federal government agency, the standard [GitHub Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies to you. |
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"a United States federal government" should be "the United States federal government". At least as far as I know, there is only one at a time.
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looks like there is a capitalization typo -- shouldn't it be GitHub not GItHub?
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@mMerlin Adjusted to address your feedback. |
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| This Amendment to GitHub's [Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies only to users that are using GitHub on behalf of a United States federal government agency. If you are not using GItHub on behalf of a U.S. federal government agency, the standard [GitHub Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies to you. | ||
| This Amendment to GitHub's [Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies only to users that are using GitHub on behalf of the United States federal government. If you are not using GItHub on behalf of a U.S. federal government agency, the standard [GitHub Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies to you. |
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If you are not using GItHub
Should have lowercase i.
... applies to you
Since "Terms of Service" is plural, it should be apply to you
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Does that second "a U.S. federal government agency" need to be changed as well? Or is the below verbiage, ending in (the "Agency") enough to handle it?
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Will leave that to their lawyers. ;) Just raising the issue.
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What about state/federal university employees? I am new to the subject matter. Can someone please break-down in lamens terms why there exists two different documents? |
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@mancoast, I believe that the relevant piece is the unchanged line 16. The specified people have additional constraints on what they can and must do. I (just me, no background) would expect that those additional clauses would apply whether they were explicitly included or not. This is just a reminder that they are not playing in their own sandbox. Standard verbiage that basically says follow the rules that are already in place. That using the system does not excuse them from existing agreements. |
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There are legislative agencies and judicial agencies. The use of "agency" doesn't exclude non-executive branch agencies. |
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| This Amendment to GitHub's [Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies only to users that are using GitHub on behalf of the United States federal government. If you are not using GItHub on behalf of a U.S. federal government agency, the standard [GitHub Terms of Service](/articles/github-terms-of-service) applies to you. |
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The service is being adopted widely, and any inconvenience due to confusion may limit contributions to public domain. Please be careful to prevent interference with students that kindly offer their work on github. |
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Thanks, @jcorbett-tandent and everyone else who made suggestions here! We agree, and we're revising this language. We should have an updated PR up shortly. I'm going to go on and close this PR — again, thank you for calling our attention to it! |
The language would not have included federal employees other than those of the executive branch due to use of the word "agency." That is, an assistant to a member of Congress or the court clerk of a federal judge do not work for an "agency," but do work for the federal government. The changes expand the definition of who is covered.
Jonathan Corbett
jon@professional-troublemaker.com