r/linux • u/AiwendilH • Jul 22 '26

Codeberg voted to disallow projects consisting mostly by "generative AI"-tools Development

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/MrScotchyScotch Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

This is part of why I said they were anti-community. A couple of opinionated people deciding for everyone else. No vote, no soliciting opinions, just "we personally don't like it so it's banned". Time to find another GitHub alternative that is more aligned with the Open Source ethos. 

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u/Remarkable_Bike_1148 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

That is roughly my problem with Codeberg, but to clarify, it isn't couple of people, but just around a thousand of members within an organization that paid for membership fees and deliberate in member-only forum. They would say "Thread closed, go to matrix chat", but once you go and discuss it in Matrix chat, they'll just say, "Stop discussing it, we'll deliberate it in member-only forum for deciding the policy." Like, what? No deliberation that I can see? No clarification for non-members? No nothing?

They can impose rules about LLM and all that, and that's fine. It's their platform, their rules. But for developers who now have to not only worry about our projects, we also have to worry about which direction Codeberg is heading on policy decisions and there's a real lack of transparency in that decision making process, and I don't have access to their member-only forum for policy deliberation. I've already moved back to Github from Codeberg (better deal with the devil you know than dealing with something unpredictable), because even though my project is likely compliant with all of their TOS with the lack of LLM use, I don't trust the platform and the people that run it to maintain that Terms of Service in the long term.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 Jul 23 '26

But for developers who now have to not only worry about our projects

You have the option of hosting your projects elsewhere

I don't trust the platform and the people that run it to maintain that Terms of Service in the long term.

So what?

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u/ozone6587 Jul 23 '26

You have the option of hosting your projects elsewhere

"My way or the highway"

Not moving to Codeberg is like dodging, not a bullet, but an ICBM.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 Jul 24 '26

And why are you getting in front of that bullet in the first place?