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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] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Shame they don't have anything themselves that's worth the trouble to copy back.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (22 children)

If it’s a public repo do they need permission?

Not saying this is good, but you can’t really argue that it’s not a natural consequence of open source.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I call my uncle, he’s very corrupt

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah... The main thing I see here is that China (read; government , not the people, not being racist here) will take this code, they will make improvements on it, they will NOT give back. Basically like Microsoft, but now an entire country.

Chinese government hasn't exact had a good reputation when it comes to taking technology and not giving anything back

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Oh, cool. I might finally find contributors to my projects.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

I'm surprised this wasnt done already

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

When they mirror it, does they uses a different username? If so I'm totally fine as that's just a fork, otherwise it should count as stolen. Not the project but the name and reputation of the owner.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

And I was just asking yesterday what would you feel if someone evil used your FOSS software: https://lemmy.world/post/16898871

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Well now chinese companies that use free softwware don't have an excuse to share their modifications of their software product.

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