2 years ago
Hi everyone,
I just signed up and stopped right after reading the summary of the ToS, in particular the "We are granted a license to use any contributions on our public repos". The verbose explanation is in section "8. What about anything I contribute to the Services – do I have to grant any licenses to Railway or to other users?" of the terms.
Ignoring personal opinions on that section that make me unwilling to continue using this platform, how do those paragraphs cope with restrictive licenses like GPL-3? By accepting the terms, I'm granting Railway the right to modify and distribute my software under a different license. Is this even legal?
2 Replies
2 years ago
This clause only applies to Railway's open source projects, like Nixpacks and the CLI, not the code that you deploy on the platform.
Status changed to Solved Railway • about 2 years ago
2 years ago
Thanks for the quick reply. The confusion came from "We are granted a license to use any contributions on our public repos" being quite clear, while the definition of User Submission as "Anything you post, upload, share, store, or otherwise provide through the Services is your User Submission" seemed to include code pushed to the Services.