Github Terms Github Pre Release License Terms (GitHub)
The GitHub Pre-release License Terms govern the use of GitHub’s pre-release software, allowing evaluation and testing in non-production environments while disclaiming warranties and limiting liability. As an official GitHub legal agreement aligned with Microsoft product terms, it provides authoritative conditions on usage, data collection, confidentiality, and compliance, ensuring clarity for participants in technical previews.
[company name] Pre-release License Terms
These terms apply to the pre-release software made available to you by [company name]. To the extent there is a conflict between these terms and any other Agreement you have with us, these terms govern.
Pre-Release Software.
The software provided is a pre-release version. “Pre-release” means software, online services, and additional products and features that are not yet generally available, such as private preview, public preview, early access, technical preview, or similar versions.
Pre-release software may not operate correctly. It may delete your data, corrupt your data, or have other bugs. It also may not work the way a final commercial version of the software will.
[company name] may change or discontinue pre-release software at any time, for any reason, without notice to you. [company name] may change the software for the final commercial version, or may not release a commercial version at all. [company name] is not obligated to provide to you any maintenance, technical support, or updates for the software.
Installation and Use Rights.
General. [company name] grants you a limited right to use a non-production instance of the software for evaluation and testing. This means you may use any number of copies of the software to evaluate its functionality and internally develop and test your applications, including deployment of the software within your internal corporate network for evaluation but not external distribution. You may also use the software in internally demonstrating your applications, but may not use the pre-release software in any active production environment, including any use to process live customer data.
Inclusion of Third-Party Components. The software may include third-party components with separate legal notices or governed by other agreements, as may be described in a license file accompanying the software.
Optional Extensions. The software may give you the option to download other [company name] and third-party software packages. Any third-party software packages are provided for your convenience only, and are governed by any applicable agreements between you and the third party. [company name] is not responsible or liable for any third-party software.
Scope of License.
[company name] reserves all rights not expressly granted to you in these terms, including retaining ownership of all aspects of the pre-release software as well as all related intellectual property rights.
Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this Agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways. You may not:
work around any technical limitations in the software;
reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the software, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the software, except to the extent required by applicable third party licensing terms governing use of certain open source components that may be included in the software;
remove, minimize, block, or modify any notices of [company name] or its suppliers in the software;
share, publish, or lease the software;
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