Good luck with my crappy code China
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2024
5 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
37739 readers
475 users here now
A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.
Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Can someone please point out some specific licenses and projects which disallow this kind of action?
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.
When I type "Beej" in their search bar, my network guide shows up in the pick list, but then it 403s when I try to go there.
Didn't see any other of my repos there. I'm confident they don't have my private repos. And even if they did, I don't have any sensitive information stored there, of course.
I guess I could worry about this or be mad about it, but there seems to be literally nothing actionable here.
It's only for repositories with a certain number of start, iirc?
A mirror of a privately controlled website hosting lots of opensource code. I wish they did it on a forgejo instance. They could've contributed so much to forgejo to enable this level of detailed cloning. It could help people wanting to move their entire profile over to forgejo and retain all issues, PRs, etc.
Maybe somebody who speaks Chinese could float it to them. They could be a force for good.