It depends on the software license.
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csm10495@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It’s a bit odd, but isn’t it equivalent to forking and putting up a fork elsewhere?
I guess I don’t see the problem.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 days ago
Does it though? You can still put up a fork somewhere else as long as you uphold the license right? Unless I guess in the case where the license explicitly disallows forks, but I don’t think that’s very common (can you even do that?).
barsoap@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Forks are derivative works (quite obviously) so yes you can forbid them via license terms. Whether or not that’s still open source, take it up with OSI. I vaguely recall that at least once upon a time there was some project that required modification to the code to be published as separate patches and it was generally accepted to be open source don’t ask me which.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Most GitHub repos don’t have a license, meaning you are not licensed to do anything with them. Rehosting them would be the same as rehosting an image you don’t have a license for.
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Ya, I kind of like the idea of code being put somewhere else just in case. It sucks it’s China, but I hate to see anything centralized in one company, especially if it’s a big public, good like Github and all it’s code.
pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The only issue I see is that they make a new Chinese equivalent for GitHub where they can censor code easier (or was GitHub already blocked?), but they already censor everything anyway so there’s probably effectively no change.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It will be funny to see folks who spent the last ten years posting “It’s not stealing, it’s copying” memes suddenly find religion because Evil Foreign People got involved.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I’m quite scared of how AI apparently pushes people in favour of significantly stricter copyrights. This is not a good trend.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This isn’t people being influenced by AI. This is Microsoft’s Godzilla battling the RIAA/MPAA’s King Kong.
The trend, to date, has been consolidation of media properties under fewer and more hegemonic distributors. And now we’re seeing people battle over the position of “Last Legitimate Music Vendor”.