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Yeah I figured as much. It was mostly a joke. At the end of the day, if stuff is on GH, people can take it. It’s barely even stealing. Unless the license disagrees of course but then you were putting a lot of trust in society by making it public in the first place.

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jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s what I don’t get about this. Why does anyone care? Even this Chinese company, why do they care to clone it all? It’s already all hosted and publicly available.

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- bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Apparently they aren’t respecting licenses. It’s possible to have source code publicly available on GH but have it not be truly FOSS. But that’s generally not a great idea since you’re effectively relying on the honour system for people not to take your code.
  
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- irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Even this Chinese company, why do they care to clone it all? It’s already all hosted and publicly available.
  
  Until it isn’t. Perhaps they are preparing for a future war with the US and assume their access to all that code will be blocked. They want to copy it now while they have access.
  
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  - jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Good point.
    
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