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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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[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 38 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 51 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 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.

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