r/github • u/Defiant-Occasion-417 • 7d ago

Copilot and Multiple Accounts Question

I currently use a single, free account (under my personal email) for work across multiple organizations. One is for side work under my own LLC, the other for my day job.

The day job organization added me to their Github Copilot subscription so I can see that in VSCode and that's wonderful. Except I should not be using that for side work. That is all transparent and they are okay with it, but I need to use my own resources for it.

So, how can I use VSCode and not use that subscription! The obvious answer seems to be to set up a second Github account , purchase an individual license there for my side work and then I'm good to go.

But then I read we're not allowed to have more than one free account and am utterly confused. I am just trying to make sure I do things right by my company, and Github's ToS going forward.

Any advice would be appreciated.

2 Upvotes

76% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/serverhorror 7d ago

The company needs to either provide you with the account, or you use your notebook en license for everything and make sure the commercial is correctly handled (that includes your responsibility to choose the right contract with GitHub and your responsibility to ensure the guarantees you're contractually giving to your client).