Clickwrapping licensing terms for different tiers (and a sponsors-only EULA template)

[reeseschultz]

Hey, GitHub. I'm requesting a feature in which users are allowed to attach licensing terms to tiers, and, additionally, clickwrap them into the sponsorship flow.

In my case, I would like to bind a low-cost tier to a EULA with no service guarantees, but, at the same time, bind a high-cost tier to an SLA that complements the aforementioned EULA. I plan on publicly releasing versions of my licensing agreements as GitHub repos, so I can simply link to these from the tier descriptions until there is a better alternative.

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Still, the rabbit hole goes deeper when we consider the idea of a EULA template that could be as ubiquitous as MIT, but obviously with more restrictive terms. As I painstakingly created my own sponsors-only EULA (I have not publicly released it yet), I fantasized about selecting GitHub's "Sponsors-Only EULA" and filling out a simple form to complete it. Creating one such template is a huge ask that involves your IP law folks, but I would urge you to seriously consider it, because many maintainers who would excel with GitHub Sponsors may not have the time or resources to create a custom EULA, nor even consider it. Plus, by having a template, sponsors can learn to expect a high degree of ubiquity and consistency among the licensing terms by which they might be bound, rather than finding themselves confused in a wild west of bizarre and likely unenforceable terms.

Adding to that, I'd like to mention that GitHub's Privacy Statement is already licensed under CC0, so that's a good start in this direction.