I think you can get some kind of exemption for archival purposes. I know that the Internet Archive has one. But I also know that ultimately Microsoft is responsible for the data hosted on Github, and Microsoft’s interest is to not even risk getting sued.
You could argue that since it’s publicly available and this repo only archives it that… I don’t know man Copyright law is confusing.
I think you can get some kind of exemption for archival purposes. I know that the Internet Archive has one. But I also know that ultimately Microsoft is responsible for the data hosted on Github, and Microsoft’s interest is to not even risk getting sued.