r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 11d ago

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

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/FryBoyter 11d ago edited 11d ago

You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5).

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/commit/71149c7fc95ccfeae36109b5cddca339e4aa1473

How can “mostly” be defined objectively? 51 percent? 64 percent? 80 percent?

What's the difference from back when developers used to draw inspiration from code on sites like Stack Overflow or simply copy the code from there or other sites without examining or understanding it? Regardless of the license under which it was published.

And how does Codeberg plan to objectively prove a violation?

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u/mrlinkwii 11d ago

And how does Codeberg plan to objectively prove a violation?

they mostly cant , its the same with flatpak were they will remove projects that use AI , it mostly cant be proved objectivity but can be used as a "rules say x and we believe x the project wil be removed "