> And these rules apply to private repos, too.

To quote your quote:

>> If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly

This is the same non-story that goes around any time someone reads the terms of service of twitter/facebook/dropbox/etc. These services need some license grant to do what you want them to do.

Note that any OSS license fulfills the requirements. I always assumed a free license was a requirement anyway. If that's the case, nothing really changed.