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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)

  • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
    5·
    5 months ago

    No, this is not correct at all! You keep limiting yourself to the terms “open source” and “closed source”.

    Any code you create, you own by copyright. Even if it is public on GitHub, you’re still the lone copyright owner and no one is legally allowed to do with it what isn’t allowed by a license.

    Projects on GitHub without an open source license are only “functionally open source” to the same extent that pirated games are “functionally free”.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      5 months ago

      If you want to use piracy language then this is privateering. It would be piracy except for the fact that they’ve got the backing and protection of a major country.

    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

      Copyright is an arbitrary concept. If a country decides to ignore it, then they can do what they want with a publicly-visible resource.