China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
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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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The code needs to maintain the copyrights and authors. They are "mirroring" usernames into their own domain, with mails that dont correspond to the original authors, stealing their contributions.
Oh! I didn't realise this. Do you have an example?
That would make it plagiarism, which ethically is a whole different matter than merelly copying that which is free to copy.