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)

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    If you want to use piracy language then this is privateering. It would be piracy except for the fact that they’ve got the backing and protection of a major country.