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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 0x815@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cloned even?

Maybe they were open source projects?

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IP theft is….. less prevalent these days (or at least leas obvious)

This would be a return to the before times

[–] db2@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

Sweet summer child...

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 0 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.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

This is entirely different. Copilot and Chatgpt doesn't exactly reproduce the code. It's paraphrasing it. By your logic you're not allowed to implement anything as the majority of algrithms originate from scientific research and papers that also have copy-rights on them.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 0 points 5 months ago

Training an AI on something doesn't involve copying it.