GitHub China Gitee
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Gitee, China’s answer to GitHub, to review all code by temporarily closing open-source projects to the public
- China’s largest open-source code platform will temporarily close public repositories to review their contents before opening them up again
- The policy change, for which no reason was given, comes as Beijing tightens its grip on internet content
the Chinese government has misunderstood open source.
“It is not about code. It is the community, the people who develop the code,” he said. “If one just copies the code to another platform where nobody contributes to improving it, it’s dead open source.”