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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report(infosec.exchange)

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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
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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.

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dan@upvote.au
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with mails that dont correspond to the original authors,

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

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

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