Compare platform discretion governance provisions between GitHub and Cursor. Provisions are extracted from monitored governance documents and classified by severity.
The provision authorizes GitHub to display and reproduce your public repository content and grants other users a license to fork and view it, which is central to how GitHub's collaborative platform functions but also means public content can be used by others within the service.
Consumer impact
Content posted to public repositories is licensed to GitHub and to all other GitHub users for display, forking, and reproduction on the platform. Developers hosting proprietary or sensitive code should ensure repositories are set to private to limit the scope of this license.
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Actual clause text
By setting your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and fork your repositories within the GitHub Service. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow GitHub to display your User Content in ways to enable users to view, fork, and download your repositories. If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform your Content through the GitHub Service and to reproduce your Content solely on GitHub as permitted through GitHub's functionality. You may grant further rights if you adopt a license.
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This provision grants Anysphere an unrestricted, royalty-free license to use any user-provided feedback about the Service, which is a standard clause in software agreements but means users have no claim to compensation or attribution for ideas that are incorporated into the product.
Consumer impact
Users who submit feedback, suggestions, or improvement ideas to Anysphere grant the company the right to use that feedback without restriction or compensation; this applies to informal communications such as support tickets or forum posts that constitute feedback about the Service.
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Actual clause text
We appreciate the thoughts and comments from our users. If you choose to provide input and suggestions regarding existing functionalities, problems with or proposed modifications or improvements to the Service ("Feedback"), then you grant Anysphere the right to exploit the Feedback without restriction or compensation to you.
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Stripe's arbitration clause is narrower than Amazon's in one key respect: it includes a small claims court carve-out that Amazon's clause does not. PayPal's clause is the most aggressive of the three, explicitly waiving jury trial rights in addition to class action rights. From a compliance perspective, Amazon presents the lowest risk for B2B contracts while PayPal creates the highest exposure for consumer-facing applications subject to CFPB oversight.