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 problem is we aren't in a thread talking about Apple stealing code. We're in a thread about China doing it. And people in here are like, "that's illegal! It's not actually open source!"
Which is why I'm driving this point so hard.
Just because it might be legal to violate copyrights in other countries doesn't make the code considered open source though lol.
It does where they're concerned.
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