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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 0x815 to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The code needs to maintain the copyrights and authors. They are "mirroring" usernames into their own domain, with mails that dont correspond to the original authors, stealing their contributions.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 4 months ago

with mails that dont correspond to the original authors,

Oh! I didn't realise this. Do you have an example?

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That would make it plagiarism, which ethically is a whole different matter than merelly copying that which is free to copy.