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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)

  • FaceDeer
    454·
    4 months ago

    And under copyleft licensing, they’re allowed to do that. Both to GitHub repositories and Wikipedia.

    • passepartoutEnglish
      424·
      4 months ago

      Of course they are, it’s not like there is some kind of international jurisdiction anyway. What is bothersome is why they do it.

      • acockworkorangeEnglish
        20·
        4 months ago

        Even if there was jurisdiction, anyone in the world is entitled to do it by the very licenses these works are released under.

    • KusimulkkuEnglish
      20·
      4 months ago

      Hopefully they follow the rest of the stipulations of the licenses, such as the common one about keeping the license as such and contributing the changes back.