Hello GitHub, there is a Chinese platform that is increasingly bulk copying users and repositories from GitHub

[theseann]

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Hello GitHub, recently there is a Chinese platform (gitcode.com), jointly built by CSDN and Huawei Cloud, which is copying most of the Github repositories and pretending to be official repositories. For example: https://github.com/python -> https://gitcode.com/python, https://github.com/torvalds -> https://gitcode.com/torvalds. More and more users and repositories are being copied to GitCode. Of course, this also includes my github repository at https://gitcode.com/theseann.

[astro-angelfish]

For users that feel offended by GitCode, GitCode has already enabled their pay-to-download function to earn profit and breaking the open source license, users might need to add some political sensitive content to their repository to avoid getting their repository mirrored as a temporary solution like this. For Chinese users they could bring up issues for their copyrights in Chinese to tell GitCode to remove their repository directly.

By the way GitCode could take down reputations of original authors by abusing their username mirrored as original author has no control on their mirrored account/username. GitCode will also have the ability to launch an attack like XZ Backdoor Incident as they gained the same reputation as the original author. Thankfully they currently haven't been found mirroring the private repositories.

What I have to say is that they could effectively suppress the Chinese open source community and earn more profit since there is no legal regulations base on open source license in China and there is some difficulties for Chinese user to access github.

[chenryace]

Please sue gitcode!

incluiding CSDN and huawei cloud! we are offended！

[astro-angelfish]

I've come up an experiment with this dictionary to avoid getting my repository mirrored by gitcode before github formally sues gitcode. But I do not have enough stars to get mirrored anyway.

[sengedev]

As we all know, CSDN is a shorthand for "Copy Steal pay-Download Not-work".