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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)

  • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
    1155·
    6 months ago

    It’s not about authorization. They want to build a knowledge base for when the Great Firewall gets some more filters. Just like russias mirror of wikipedia which is heavily edited to discredit the west.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      454·
      6 months ago

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

      • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
        423·
        6 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.

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          6 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.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 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.

    • 31337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      61·
      6 months ago

      This seems like the most plausible explanation. Only other thing I can think of is they want to develop their own CoPilot (which I’m guessing isn’t available in China due to the U.S. AI restrictions?), and they’re just using their existing infrastructure to gather training data.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1521·
      6 months ago

      Just like russias mirror of wikipedia which is heavily edited to discredit the west.

      How come I live in Russia and have never seen such?

      I know only of quite a few troll\counterculture projects, some, like Lurkmore, are already, well, dead, some, like Traditsiya, are not.

      That, of course, if you don’t mean that Russian Wikipedia in itself has problems. Which would be true.

      • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
        332·
        6 months ago

        It’s called Ruwiki.

        It was launched in June 24, 2023 as a fork of the Russian Wikipedia, and has been described by some media groups as “Putin-friendly” and “Kremlin-compliant”.