Mon, May 11, 2026
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Can You Use a GitHub EMU Account Alongside Your Personal GitHub Account Under the ToS? — Reading ToS B.3's 'One Free Account' Rule Against the Contract Structure and the Official Docs
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Looking at ToS B.3's 'One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account,' it is easy to assume that holding both a company-provisioned EMU account and a personal GitHub account breaks the rule. Read in context, the clause restricts free accounts specifically, and GitHub's own documentation ships an account switcher, multi-account SSH guidance, and gh auth switch for the EMU-plus-personal pattern. This post walks through the ToS text, the Customer Agreement and GHEC Product Specific Terms that govern the EMU side, the Entra ID provisioning quirks around email verification, and the workplace-policy layer that sits on top.
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