If you want others to use, distribute, modify, or contribute back to your project, you need to include an open source license. For example, someone cannot legally use any part of your GitHub project in their code, even if it’s public, unless you explicitly give them the right to do so .
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GitHub is a web-based interface that uses Git, the open source version control software that lets multiple people make separate changes to web pages at the same time . As Carpenter notes, because it allows for real-time collaboration, GitHub encourages teams to work together to build and edit their site content.
Read moreCan I use GitHub for anything?
As reported in Wired, ReadWrite, and elsewhere, GitHub is used to manage the collaborative development of recipes, musical scores, books, fonts, legal documents, lessons and tutorials, and data sets .
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