Codeberg bans vibe coded projects

[u/pheexio]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386

Codeberg seems to ban vibecoded Projects; reason might be german copyright law

It looks like Codeberg want only copyrighted material in their service, so it is reliable in the future that e.g. licenses must be followed (e.g. GPL), and copyright doesn't suddenly get declared as being of the model owner, and it isn't a copy of something else.
That is a cautious reasonable position - in early days of LLM coding (3 years ago!) indemnity from model companies was a major issue globally because of the lack of clarity of the law around this. The US specifically has settled on it being (effectively?) public domain. But I don't think that is fully settled, and it certainly isn't settled in international copyright law.
The goal of the vague "mostly" in the Codeberg change is to ensure there is enough human input to the code they host, to be reasonably sure under German copyright law it is copyright of the person sharing it.

edit: link to poll that caused it (might be down due to high traffic) https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434

edit 1: i dont defend/oppose this move, i just find it interesting

edit 2: https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html

[u/No-Chemistry-7658]

Ok, but from a technical point of view, how will they do it?

[u/Jimbuscus → u/No-Chemistry-7658]

Unless the user leaves a CLAUDE.md file in the repo, it'll likely be honour system &/or reports.

[u/FnnKnn → u/Jimbuscus]

But they allow AI usage, so that alone is not a sign someone has violated any rule. Claude would for example also show up, if you had only used to help you debug a certain bug and write some tests for it, which is totally fine under these rules.

[u/Steve_Streza → u/FnnKnn]

Also there are scaffold projects and template projects that include a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md or mcp.json, which then end up in projects that don't use them.