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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 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.