Content rights
Effective 2 November 2026. See also the Terms of Use.
A course built with RepoTutor contains other people's work. README text from the repositories you name is copied into the course. That work stays under its original license. Packaging it as SCORM does not transfer copyright to you, to your learners, or to RepoTutor, and it does not grant any right the original license does not already give.
What gets copied
Each repository you list becomes one module. The module contains that repository's README, rendered as HTML, plus a short quiz RepoTutor writes from the README's own section headings. The quiz questions are generated by the tool. The README text, images, and examples belong to the repository's authors. On the website, relative image addresses in the README are loaded from GitHub when you preview a module. <script> tags in the rendered README are removed before preview and before they are put in the zip.
How each source and license is credited
When you build a course, the website asks GitHub's public API for each repository's detected license (GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/license). The command-line tool calls the same endpoint. The answer is stored as the license name, its SPDX identifier, and a link to the license file GitHub points at.
Every module ends with an attribution line, and that line links to credits.html:
- When GitHub reports a license, the line reads: README content © the authors of
owner/repo, used under the license name and SPDX id, with a link to the license file. - When no license is detected, the line reads: README content © the authors of
owner/repo. No license detected: all rights are reserved by the authors, so get their permission before sharing this course outside your organization.
The course index links to credits.html. The zip includes that file, and the SCORM manifest lists it with the shared course files. credits.html is a table of every source repository. Each row links to the repository on GitHub and shows either the license name and SPDX id (linked to the license file) or the words "No license detected: all rights reserved by the authors".
If any source has no detected license, credits.html adds a warning: that README text is shown for personal or internal study, and you should ask the authors before redistributing the course. The page also says license data comes from GitHub's license detection and may be incomplete, and that you should check each repository's LICENSE file before commercial use.
On the website, a license request that fails (including a rate limit or a network error) is treated as no license detected. The command-line tool does the same for a 404 and stops the build on other errors from GitHub. A missing label is not a finding that the work is free to reuse.
No detected license means all rights reserved
A repository with no detected license is all rights reserved. Do not redistribute that README, including inside a course zip, unless the authors give you permission. GitHub may also fail to recognize a license that is present. Check the repository yourself before you share the course.
Do not remove the attribution line or credits.html, and do not replace the authors' license with a different one. The Terms of Use forbid using RepoTutor to strip attribution or to relicense others' code.
Removal and opt-out
RepoTutor does not keep the course zip. The website builds it in your browser, and the command-line tool writes it on the computer where it runs. There is no account and no catalog of generated courses on this site. The build form does include a few example repository names.
There is no block list in the product. If you own a repository and want those examples changed, or you believe a course made with this tool is being shared beyond its license, send a removal or opt-out request to the contact below. A request cannot pull back a zip someone has already downloaded.
Contact. Removal and opt-out requests go to admin@sagadog.com.
GitHub
GitHub and the GitHub logo are trademarks of GitHub, Inc. RepoTutor reads public README and license data through GitHub's API. RepoTutor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by GitHub.