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)

  • kava@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have no problem copying code either. The question is at what point does it go from

    1. I’m reading code and doing research

    To

    1. I’m copying code

    How abstracted does it have to be before it’s OK? If you write a merge sort, it might be similar to the one you learned when you were studying data structures.

    Should you make sure you attribute your data structure textbook every time you write a merge sort?

    Are you understanding the point I’m trying to get at?

    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      My trivial (non legal ;) answer is: If you are working for a corporation that is looking to patent something / make something closed license: the moment you ever looked at a single line of my code relevant to what you are doing, you are forbidden from releasing under any more restrictive license. If you are a private person working on open source? Then you be the judge whether you copied enough of my code that you believe it is more than just “inspired by”.