Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months agoYeah 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.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months 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.
irreticent@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
jaybone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Good point.