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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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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago

Yeah, though the Chinese government isn't doing this out of the goodness of their heart, this is what open source is about.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Shame they don't have anything themselves that's worth the trouble to copy back.

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[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 19 points 6 months ago

Yeah... The main thing I see here is that China (read; government , not the people, not being racist here) will take this code, they will make improvements on it, they will NOT give back. Basically like Microsoft, but now an entire country.

Chinese government hasn't exact had a good reputation when it comes to taking technology and not giving anything back

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[-] maxinstuff@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

If it’s a public repo do they need permission?

Not saying this is good, but you can’t really argue that it’s not a natural consequence of open source.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

God damn it, Jiaan Yang!

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[-] Matriks404@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

Oh, cool. I might finally find contributors to my projects.

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[-] ben_dover@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago

*New GitHub

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[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 6 months ago

I'm surprised this wasnt done already

[-] zephyr@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

And I was just asking yesterday what would you feel if someone evil used your FOSS software: https://lemmy.world/post/16898871

[-] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 months ago

When they mirror it, does they uses a different username? If so I'm totally fine as that's just a fork, otherwise it should count as stolen. Not the project but the name and reputation of the owner.

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[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 months ago

But at what cost???

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