GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud.

It is being reported that many users’ repository are being cloned and re-hosted on GitCode without explicit authorization.

There is also a thread on Ycombinator (archived link)

  • passepartout@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    Of course they are, it’s not like there is some kind of international jurisdiction anyway. What is bothersome is why they do it.

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      4 months ago

      Even if there was jurisdiction, anyone in the world is entitled to do it by the very licenses these works are released under.