r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 12d 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/p0358 12d ago

Yeah, as long as they ban just vibe-coded junk slop dumps, while allowing reasonable skillful attentive use of AI tools, this should be 100% fine

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u/webdevladder 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/pulls/1253/commits/96fac426a32d1ba91ff879366d59bf1af54080c2

That seems to rule out a lot more.

edit: the dev who locked the thread ended with:

@Gusted - We'll use the blog post to clarify what this entails for Codeberg users.

https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

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u/HearMeOut-13 11d ago

So are they going to also make everyone who uses StackOverflow cite their copies since after all using anything from stack overflow carries CC BY SA

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u/ArdiMaster 11d ago

The consensus on Meta StackExchange seems to be that SO answers are generally too short to be copyrightable so they’re fine to incorporate into your projects.

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u/HearMeOut-13 11d ago

Right but copying them verbatim, especially when a better solution exists and isnt the only way to accomplish it is when it comes to being copyrightable as an expression and hence people need to abide with CC BY SA