The agreement prohibits posting information that is unlawful or that facilitates illegal activities, applying this restriction broadly across all content types and user contexts on the platform.
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This provision establishes a broad prohibition on unlawful content that supplements the specific categorical prohibitions elsewhere in the AUP, and its broad framing means that the scope of prohibited content depends on applicable law in the user's jurisdiction, which may vary significantly across geographies.
Interpretive note: The scope of 'unlawful' content is entirely dependent on the applicable law of the relevant jurisdiction, which varies significantly across geographies and creates interpretive uncertainty that cannot be resolved from the document text alone.
Under this clause, content that is unlawful under any applicable jurisdiction or that facilitates illegal activities is prohibited on GitHub. The breadth of this prohibition means that compliance depends partly on the laws of the jurisdiction in which the user operates, which may differ across countries.
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This provision establishes a broad prohibition on unlawful content that supplements the specific categorical prohibitions elsewhere in the AUP, and its broad framing means that the scope of prohibited content depends on applicable law in the user's jurisdiction, which may vary significantly across geographies.
Under this clause, content that is unlawful under any applicable jurisdiction or that facilitates illegal activities is prohibited on GitHub. The breadth of this prohibition means that compliance depends partly on the laws of the jurisdiction in which the user operates, which may differ across countries.
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