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

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passepartout@feddit.org
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Of course they are, it’s not like there is some kind of international jurisdiction anyway. What is bothersome is why they do it.

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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Even if there was jurisdiction, anyone in the world is entitled to do it by the very licenses these works are released under.

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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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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.

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