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China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
(infosec.exchange)
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I don't understand why this is a bad thing? Open source code is designed to be shared/distributed, and an open-source license can't place any limits on who can use or share the code. Git was designed as a distributed, decentralized model partly for this reason (even though people ended up centralizing it on Github anyways)
They might end up using the code in a way that violates its license, but simply cloning it isn't a problem.
The code needs to maintain the copyrights and authors. They are "mirroring" usernames into their own domain, with mails that dont correspond to the original authors, stealing their contributions.
Oh! I didn't realise this. Do you have an example?
That would make it plagiarism, which ethically is a whole different matter than merelly copying that which is free to copy.