Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

• SorteKanin@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?).

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  • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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