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 Big melon if you found my posts why are you reading them Level: 20 
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Was the melonDS GitHub I wanted to ask, because i don't like how this sounds. ____________________ meh |
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Member Normal user Level: 13 Posts: 18/39 EXP: 9538 Next: 729 Since: 03-27-22 Last post: 23 hours ago Last view: 21 hours ago |
How do you "steal" it besides literally overriding the commit authors for some reason. The source code can be freely forked wherever, the GPLv3 license given is permission itself to do such.
EDIT: Also taking 5 seconds using their search indicates melonDS is not forked on there, so I don't get why this was really asked in the first place. |
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Big melon if you found my posts why are you reading them Level: 20
Posts: 46/121 EXP: 36300 Next: 6139 Since: 05-26-24 From: behind you Last post: 290 days ago Last view: 290 days ago |
Translated with DeepL (I'm lazy right now).
An independent IT security researcher with the pseudonym @still on Mastodon alleges that someone has created an account on this new platform and hosted his GitHub projects. Like him, many other users have been reporting this over the past few days, so it appears that this is an extensive maneuver on the platform. Posted by CasualPokePlayer Uh, since when do we trust Chinese pages? Because i don't. Unless it's a leaked PvZ China-exclusive game. Besides, Pretendo is already there. And Pretendo is cool. https://gitcode.com/PretendoNetwork/.github Also, uh, https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1doh0gl/comment/lagvu8l/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button ____________________ meh |
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Member Normal user Level: 13 Posts: 19/39 EXP: 9538 Next: 729 Since: 03-27-22 Last post: 23 hours ago Last view: 21 hours ago |
Having a site with a ton of projects mirrored/forked isn't exactly something bad here, on face value this at least seems no different than someone deciding to mirror/fork projects not originally hosted onto GitHub on GitHub itself (e.g. glibc). As long as the license allows it to be forked (i.e. it's open source in the first place) there's no problem here (at face value).
Posted by kikilxve Being Chinese does not make it inherently untrustworthy. Posted by kikilxve Seems more like shady blind low quality mirroring if anything, although technically not so much "stealing" as it is "mass mirroring with some sneaky changes to attract traffic, all allowable by an actual open source" (except for cases where the license used doesn't end up allowing such outside of implicitly in GitHub, then it's just unauthorized forking) |
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Big melon if you found my posts why are you reading them Level: 20
Posts: 47/121 EXP: 36300 Next: 6139 Since: 05-26-24 From: behind you Last post: 290 days ago Last view: 290 days ago |
Well, ok, Shady low quality mirroring. But still. Welp, i guess shush. ____________________ meh |
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