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Attached: 3 images tldr: GitCode or China is attempting to mirror/clone the entire GitHub over to their own servers and there's nothing you can do about it, even if your license somehow disagrees with it. Apparently China now has their own GitHub/public Git repository hosting service called GitCode; it is owned and operated by CSDN under the company name "重庆开源共创科技有限公司". It is being reported that many users' repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without authorization - meaning your project may very well be on this service without you explicitly allowing.

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)

  • csm10495@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    934·
    4 months ago

    It’s a bit odd, but isn’t it equivalent to forking and putting up a fork elsewhere?

    I guess I don’t see the problem.

      • SorteKanin@feddit.dkEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        Does it though? You can still put up a fork somewhere else as long as you uphold the license right? Unless I guess in the case where the license explicitly disallows forks, but I don’t think that’s very common (can you even do that?).

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          4 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.

        • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Most GitHub repos don’t have a license, meaning you are not licensed to do anything with them. Rehosting them would be the same as rehosting an image you don’t have a license for.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      298·
      4 months ago

      It will be funny to see folks who spent the last ten years posting “It’s not stealing, it’s copying” memes suddenly find religion because Evil Foreign People got involved.

      • Klear@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        I’m quite scared of how AI apparently pushes people in favour of significantly stricter copyrights. This is not a good trend.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          4 months ago

          This isn’t people being influenced by AI. This is Microsoft’s Godzilla battling the RIAA/MPAA’s King Kong.

          The trend, to date, has been consolidation of media properties under fewer and more hegemonic distributors. And now we’re seeing a couple of economic Titans battle over the position of “Last Legitimate Music Vendor”.

    • WanderingVentra@lemm.eeEnglish
      62·
      4 months ago

      Ya, I kind of like the idea of code being put somewhere else just in case. It sucks it’s China, but I hate to see anything centralized in one company, especially if it’s a big public, good like Github and all it’s code.

    • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      The only issue I see is that they make a new Chinese equivalent for GitHub where they can censor code easier (or was GitHub already blocked?), but they already censor everything anyway so there’s probably effectively no change.