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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)

  • nutsackEnglish
    6415·
    4 months ago4 months ago

    I love how every Chinese company is called “China”

    • DoucheBagMcSwagEnglish
      5921·
      4 months ago

      Yeah… That’s because they are. it is required that every Chinese Company has to be owned by “tHe PeOpLe” (CCP)

      • SkyezOpenEnglish
        185·
        4 months ago

        Gotta disguise being a capitalist country somehow.

        • UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
          926·
          4 months ago

          Capitalism is when the public owns the things. And Communism is when a handful of private individuals owns the things.

          • prototype_g2English
            30·
            4 months ago

            No… Capitalism is when a handful of individuals own the means of production and have full authority on how they are used.

            Communism is more akin to when the workers decide what to do with the means of production they operate.

            You got this literally backwards.

          • MindTravellerEnglish
            85·
            4 months ago

            So what’s it called when the government is a handful of private individuals, as opposed to representing the public?