@diazona In some sense it is not even a novel policy. If you were caught stealing code from another open source project, or from your employer's proprietary codebase, you'd be banned in the same way. Using an extremely slow probabilistic token generator to file off the copyright notices is not meaningfully different than using a text editor to do the same thing.
@diazona The only reason I even need to say anything is that contributors are being somewhat deliberately mislead by Github's speculative legal reasoning here.