This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
GitHub are not some bastion of righteousness - they are literally owned by Microsoft. And they work hard to stop people from getting too much Open Source from them, with rate limits and the like, so essentially gate keep.
I think CSDN probably want to gatekeep their clone even harder, but in general having archives of GitHub on the Internet is a good thing.
Yes. Fuck CCP, but having mirror is good.
EDIT: https://lemmy.world/comment/10853810
It appears to be scam-type(capitalism with beastly grin type) mirror.
With the obligatory "fuck everyone who disregards open source licenses", I am still slightly amused at this raising eyebrows while nearly no one is complaining about MS using github to train their copilot LLM, which will help circumvent licenses & copyrights by the bazillion.
Came here to say this. As much as I don't like china, there is really nothing to see (apart from the source, that's for everybody to see).
If it’s a public repo do they need permission?
Not saying this is good, but you can’t really argue that it’s not a natural consequence of open source.
Classic Chinese tech co, if you can't create something on your own just download the source files and say you made it. The money spends the same after the fact, anyhow.
It is not illegal is it?
If it is legal, then thank you China for the free backup.
I do believe it's illegal if they take a repository with a restrictive license (which includes any repository without a license), and then make it available on their own service. I think China just doesn't care.
If it's hosted in a public repo, anyone can clone it, that's very much part of most git flows.
What you can do with the software, how you can use it, that's another matter, based on the licence.
That of course assumes China will respect the copyright..
Illegal according to who?
The US? Why would China care, they are their own country with their own laws.
International courts? Who is enforcing those judgments?
What, even the private gits???
No, they don't have access to that
Smart.
Yeah, though the Chinese government isn't doing this out of the goodness of their heart, this is what open source is about.
I hate authoritarian regimes, but why hosting cloned repos is bad?
EDIT: https://lemmy.world/comment/10853810
It appears to be scam-type(capitalism with beastly grin type) mirror. Not saying that hosting mirrors is bad in itself.
If we steal IP from China does the America government give us a business loan?
