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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cloned even?

Maybe they were open source projects?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If the license of the project isn’t being respected then this is a problem.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I’m not disagreeing, but can anyone really be surprised? IP theft is Chinese policy 101.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

GitHub owner Microsoft would never engage in IP theft of source code. They leave that to OpenAI and then rebrand it as GitHub Copilot.