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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report (infosec.exchange)
submitted 4 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] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

By comparing it to the original work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And how will you know what original work(s) to compare it to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you know anything about anything an LLM generates? Presumably if you're the author you would recognize your own work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm not going to be monitoring Chinese code projects. They don't seem to care much about copyright, so they'll probably just yoink the code into proprietary projects and not care about the licenses.

What am I going to do, sue someone in China? And decompile everything that comes from China to check if my code was likely in it? That's ridiculous. If it's domestic, I probably have a chance, but not if it's in another country, and especially not one like China that doesn't seem to care about copyright.