Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months agoIn countries following that legal regime.
Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months agoIn countries following that legal regime.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
You’re being obtuse. I get the point you’re trying to make – you’ve been heard. I’m just saying those aren’t the terms you should be using to make it. Open source has a very distinct definition and it has to do with the licenses covering the code. It has nothing to do with whether different countries have differing laws. Code cannot be open source in one country and not open source in another because the definition has nothing to do with countries. In fact, that would specifically not be open source because it gives rights to some and not others.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The problem is we aren’t in a thread talking about Apple stealing code. We’re in a thread about China doing it. And people in here are like, “that’s illegal! It’s not actually open source!”
Which is why I’m driving this point so hard.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 months ago
Just because it might be legal to violate copyrights in other countries doesn’t make the code considered open source though lol.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It does where they’re concerned.