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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)

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GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

Forks are derivative works (quite obviously) so yes you can forbid them via license terms. Whether or not that's still open source, take it up with OSI. I vaguely recall that at least once upon a time there was some project that required modification to the code to be published as separate patches and it was generally accepted to be open source don't ask me which.

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