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To clone Chinese OSS, you need WeChat account or OTP+Phone in China. This feels totally against the principles of good faith in OSS dev. They can clone and take

To clone Chinese OSS, you need WeChat account or OTP+Phone in China. This feels totally against the principles of good faith in OSS dev. They can clone and take advantage of the rest of the world’s efforts while returning nothing back. Asshole, is the term for such entities. To be fair, some cool Chinese developers do have repos on GitHub. They’re not the majority though. Edit: Hold on folks, I need to find source of this. Edit2: I am pretty sure I was using Zhaodao.

oefrha 6y ago
Wait what? Last time youtube-dl got taken down on GitHub, someone advertised a Chinese mirror https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader, and I was able to clone it just fine. Not sure where you got the idea that you need a WeChat account to clone. Are you talking about some other site?
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  I just tried it with no issues. Maybe they meant to sign up and use it as a developer you have to have something traceable by the CCP?
joshuaissac 6y ago
> To clone Chinese OSS, you need WeChat account or OTP+Phone in China Do you have a source for this? I tried signing up on Gitee (Chinese GitHub alternative), and it did not ask me to prove that I had WeChat or a phone number. > some cool Chinese developers do have repos on GitHub Mirroring their projects on GitHub might be fine, but given the current relationship between China and the US (where GitHub is hosted), Chinese developers would be better off hosting their main repo elsewhere.
- systemvoltage 6y ago
  I need to find the source. I didn’t use Gitee and it was a couple of years ago, forgot where I was trying to download. I remember getting a QR code to get access to the code. Other login options were Baidu, WeChat, and Weibo. Edit: I think I was most likely using Zhaodao. https://zhaodao.ai/ https://zhaodao.ai/

oefrha 6y ago

Wait what? Last time youtube-dl got taken down on GitHub, someone advertised a Chinese mirror https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader https://gitee.com/mirrors/youtube-downloader, and I was able to clone it just fine. Not sure where you got the idea that you need a WeChat account to clone. Are you talking about some other site?

stjohnswarts 6y ago
I just tried it with no issues. Maybe they meant to sign up and use it as a developer you have to have something traceable by the CCP?

joshuaissac 6y ago

> To clone Chinese OSS, you need WeChat account or OTP+Phone in China Do you have a source for this? I tried signing up on Gitee (Chinese GitHub alternative), and it did not ask me to prove that I had WeChat or a phone number. > some cool Chinese developers do have repos on GitHub Mirroring their projects on GitHub might be fine, but given the current relationship between China and the US (where GitHub is hosted), Chinese developers would be better off hosting their main repo elsewhere.

systemvoltage 6y ago
I need to find the source. I didn’t use Gitee and it was a couple of years ago, forgot where I was trying to download. I remember getting a QR code to get access to the code. Other login options were Baidu, WeChat, and Weibo. Edit: I think I was most likely using Zhaodao. https://zhaodao.ai/ https://zhaodao.ai/